The climate bill’s projected emissions cuts rely heavily on carbon capture – it would mean thousands of miles of pipeline
The sweeping climate, energy and health care bill expected to go to a vote in the U.S. House on Friday contains about US$370 billion to...
‘Unequivocal’ Evidence that Humans Cause Climate Change, Contrary to Posts of Old Video
SciCheck Digest There is “unequivocal” evidence that humans are causing global warming, the U.N. climate change panel has said. But viral posts revive a 2014...
Nuclear Power Revisited
By Dave Pulver: Countries worldwide increasingly view nuclear power as an important part of the green power transition, France and South Korea, for example. Currently,...
Biden says he will act on climate change after Manchin opposes legislation
President Joe Biden on Friday said he will move forward with his own efforts to combat climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions, a day after Sen....
Manchin rejects climate, tax elements of party-line Dem bill
Joe Manchin on Thursday rejected Senate Democrats’ proposed energy and climate investments, as well as their goals of increasing taxes on the wealthy and large...
Georgia Senate Candidate Herschel Walker Makes Inaccurate ‘Bad Air’ Theory of Climate Change
In speaking about the Green New Deal, Herschel Walker, the former professional football player vying for a Senate seat in Georgia, incorrectly suggested that U.S....
Supreme Court curbs EPA’s climate powers
The Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ability to regulate climate change, setting limits on how the agency can deal with...
Biden’s climate ambitions are all but dead
U.S. President Joe Biden came into office with more aggressive plans to fight what he called the "Existential threat" of climate change than any of...
Europe saw warmest summer on record in 2021
Scientists say last summer was the hottest summer on record in Europe, with temperatures a full 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the average for the previous three decades.A report released Friday by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that while spring 2021 was cooler than average, the summer months were…
Under a new policy, federal agencies will have to weigh the climate costs of their actions
On April 19, the Biden administration restored a critical climate provision to a bedrock federal environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) which had been narrowed under former President Donald Trump. The standard will require new infrastructure projects to more broadly consider how they alter the environment, especially when they are planned near already…
Record low Antarctic sea ice extent could signal shift
Pristine snow and ice reflect more than 80 percent of the Sun’s energy back into space. Sea ice around Antarctica shrank to the smallest extent on record in February, five years after the previous record low, researchers said Tuesday, suggesting Earth’s frozen continent may be less impervious to climate change than thought. In late February,…
Droughts threaten one of the Southwest power grid’s biggest electricity generators
This article was originally featured on High Country News. Thirty-nine years ago, due to record-breaking snowfall in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Lake Powell rose substantially, catching river managers off-guard. By late June, the reservoir was nearly overflowing, forcing operators—for the first time ever—to rely on the spillways. Instead of giving relief, that precipitated a…
Planet’s breakneck warming likely to pass 1.5 degrees, U.N. scientists warn
The international goal to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius is officially on life support. A United Nations-backed panel of climate scientists warned in...
Antarctica, Arctic undergo simultaneous freakish extreme heat
Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average.Weather stations in Antarctica shattered records Friday as the region neared autumn. The two-mile high (3,234 meters) Concordia station…
Postal Service Defies Biden Administration, Moving Forward With Plan To Buy Gas-Powered Mail Trucks
Topline The U.S. Postal Service will proceed with an $11.3 billion plan to replace its aging mail trucks with largely gas-powered new vehicles, the agency announced Wednesday, with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ignoring calls from the Biden administration to purchase more electric vehicles. A U.S. Post Office truck on February 10 in North Haledon, NJ.…
Why the White House Never Released Its 2030 Climate Strategy
The United States still owes the world details about how it plans to meet President Biden’s pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of this decade. The White House promised last year that those would come in the form of a comprehensive “U.S. National Climate Strategy.” That term was used more…
Study: North American megadrought severest in at least 1,200 years
Dried lake bed bakes in the sun at Nicasio Reservoir in Nicasio, California, on July 10, 2021. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo Feb. 14 (UPI) — The “megadrought” that has gripped southwestern North America for more than two decades is the driest such event in the region in at least 1,200 years,…
Moving CO2 from Air to Oceans May Be Necessary to Slow Warming
Climbing concentrations of carbon dioxide make it likely that humans will have to move some gases from the atmosphere into the oceans to prevent crippling effects of climate change, the National Academies said in a major report released yesterday. It came after months of deliberation among top U.S. scientists who concluded that global efforts to…
Countries strike deal at COP26 climate summit after last-minute compromise on coal
COP26 President Alok Sharma (L) MP and Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change speak at the start of the stock taking Plenary on day thirteen of the COP26 at SECC on November 12, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland.Ian Forsyth | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesNegotiators from nearly 200…
Why the U.S. Didn’t Join 40 Other Countries in Pledge to End Coal
The Biden administration arrived this month at international climate talks in Scotland with the intent to prove the United States was again ready to lead the fight against global warming. But when more than 40 countries signed a pledge to phase out coal in the coming decades, the United States was conspicuously absent. The White…