As the White House prepares to announce its first full budget later today, as predicted the Environmental Protection Agency and other measures to protect the nation’s air, water and health, are firmly in Trump’s sights.
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“Fossil fuels have lost. The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet”
“Fossil fuels have lost,” argues Eddie O’Connor, chief executive of Irelands’s Mainstream Renewable Power company, before adding: “The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet.”
We are on cusp of “deepest, most consequential disruption of transportation in history”
“We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruption of transportation in history.” Within ten years, we may witness a radical technological shake up in the way we drive as people switch from petrol and diesel engines to self-drive electric vehicles.
Comey Sacking: Just Don’t Mention Russia (or Exxon, the Arctic and Oil)
Washington DC is still reeling this morning with the news that Donald Trump yesterday sacked FBI director, James Comey. Ostensibly, the White House is saying that Comey’s firing is all about his botched investigation into Clinton’s emails. But everyone knows that is not the truth.
“Free Speech Crisis” in US with Laws Designed “to Crush” Protests
Since Donald Trump was elected, there has been an assault on the pillars of what many would be considered a free and fair democratic society: the right to protest and the right to free speech.
New French President Has to Tackle Trump Over Climate
Donald Trump was quick to take to Twitter last night to congratulate the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron on his resounding victory against the far-right, Marine Le Pen, in the French presidential race.
Shareholders criticise Exxon for “putting itself and its investors at risk” over climate
The oil giant may have its man of choice in the White House and its old boss as Secretary of State, but Exxon is once again coming under pressure over its stance on climate change.
As Britain Celebrates Coal-Free Day, Solar Could Soon Shine in US Coal Country
April 21 2017, will go down as a significant day in the dying days of the fossil fuel era. For the first time since the renewable revolution in 1882, Britain went a full day without using dirty coal to generate electricity.
Join the March for Science this Saturday
This Saturday, on Earth Day, there will be a March to stand up for science in the face of the most anti-science US Administration ever. A March to stand up for facts in the Trump post-factual era. To highlight issues such as climate change with a climate denier in the White House. To stand up for scientific free speech, in a dangerous era of political censorship. The message is simple: “Science, not Silence.”
Putin Denies Humans Cause Climate Change, “Endorses” Scott Pruitt
These are dangerous days for the climate. Not only do we have a climate denier in the White House, we have one in the Kremlin too.