If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will become a poorer country facing more dramatic inequality, according to a study. The poorest third of US counties could see income drops as great as 20 percent if current trends continue, according to the worst-case projection of the study, published … Read more
After years of fighting to roll back Barack Obama’s policies, top US environmental official and climate change skeptic Scott Pruitt saw his efforts bear fruit Thursday when President Donald Trump announced the US exit from the Paris climate deal. Pruitt heads the Environmental Protection Agency, and has spent much of the last few months since … Read more
President Donald Trump may be dragging out his decision on whether to ditch the Paris climate agreement, but major American corporations have not waited for a government signal to start cutting their carbon emissions. Before Trump had even raised the possibility of scrapping US involvement in the landmark 2015 treaty, Coca-Cola and the engineering giant … Read more
US compliance with its commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change would be “crippling” to growth, the White House said Friday. During his election campaign, avowed climate sceptic Donald Trump promised to exit the 2015 UN pact on limiting global warming. But Trump has now said he will make a decision after returning to … Read more
The gutting of US-funded climate science would cripple research agendas worldwide and hamper the global fight against climate change, say scientists outside the United States, some of whom will take to the streets Saturday to make that point. US President Donald Trump has called for drastic cutbacks across multiple federal agencies that track and analyse … Read more
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change. The president said this would put an end to the “war on coal” and “job-killing regulations”. The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor, and boosts fossil fuels. Business groups … Read more
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change. The president said this would put an end to the “war on coal” and “job-killing regulations”. The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor, and boosts fossil fuels. Business groups … Read more
The incoming head of America’s Environmental Protection Agency, climate skeptic Scott Pruitt, said Thursday he believes that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming. A known fossil-fuel ally, Pruitt’s appointment to head the EPA – a department he repeatedly sued as a state attorney general – was deeply contentious. ‘I think that … Read more
The incoming head of America’s Environmental Protection Agency, climate skeptic Scott Pruitt, said Thursday he believes that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming. A known fossil-fuel ally, Pruitt’s appointment to head the EPA — a department he repeatedly sued as a state attorney general — was deeply contentious. “I think that … Read more
Chinese officials have reaffirmed the country’s determination to continue working on climate change despite climate skeptic Donald Trump’s win in the U. S. presidential election. The U. S. President-elect has questioned climate change and vowed to pull out of the landmark Paris Agreement, bringing uncertainties to the future climate agenda of the U.S. and the … Read more