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Climate Change

  1. climate change
    Trump Clears Way for Frackers to Leak Methane While Drilling on Federal LandThe Trump administration is rolling back rules that required oil and gas companies to cut down on methane emissions when drilling on public land.
    By Eric Levitz
  2. climate change
    Voters Are Ready for a Green New Deal. Are Democrats?America currently lacks the political will for radical action on climate change — but the American people don’t.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. the national interest
    Trump Administration Says Trump Coal Plan Will Kill 1,400 Americans a YearTrump’s EPA: “Implementing the proposed rule is expected to increase … pollutants in the atmosphere that adversely affect human health.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. climate change
    The Arctic’s Strongest Sea Ice Just Broke UpIf the oldest, thickest sea ice in the Arctic can’t stay together, what hope is there for the rest of us?
    By Eric Levitz
  5. the national interest
    Trump’s Craziest Climate Speech Ever Explains His New Dirty Energy PolicyPresident likes coal because it’s “indestructible,” hates wind because birds can kill it, somehow.
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. Geoengineering May Be Our Last Resort for Climate Change. What If It Fails?Using sulfur particles to dim the sun is considered a last-ditch remedy for an overheated planet. But a new finding suggests we should be skeptical.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  7. California’s Record-breaking Fire Isn’t the Week’s Worst Climate NewsA group of distinguished scientists warns that the threat of runaway warming may have been underestimated.
    David Wallace-Wells
  8. Trump Plunges Ahead With Attack on Fuel Standards and CaliforniaIn a long-debated development, the administration freezes gas mileage standards and revokes California’s decades-old authority to be greener.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. New EPA Chief Worries Trump’s Pro-Car-Pollution Plan Is IllegalBut other administration officials believe the plan is legal — because Brett Kavanaugh will say that it is, when the issue reaches the Supreme Court.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. tomorrow
    How Did the End of the World Become Old News?This month, the world saw an unprecedented global heat wave, wildfires in the Arctic Circle — and virtually no headlines about climate change.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  13. A Global Heat Wave Has Set the Arctic Circle on FireTemperature records are being broken all around the world this month and not even the Arctic is immune.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  14. Scandalous EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Finally ResignsPruitt heads off to the Scandal-Ridden Cabinet Members Hall of Fame, without so much as a moment’s acknowledgement of his misdeeds from the president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Natural Gas Is Hurting the Climate More Than We ThoughtScott Pruitt tried to suppress research on methane emissions at gas plants. A new study reveals that he had good reason to fear the truth.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. GOP Senators: Climate-Change Education Program Is Propaganda, Not ScienceFour senators want an investigation into the National Science Foundation for funding a nonprofit that educates meteorologists on climate change.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  17. Antarctica Is Melting Three Times Faster Than a Decade AgoFrom 2012 to 2017, the Antarctic ice sheet lost 241 billion tons of ice each yer, triple the annual melt rate from a decade prior.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. A Progressive President Could Accomplish a Lot by Following Trump’s ExampleTrump is using creative interpretations of old laws to authorize radical interventions in the economy. That should worry conservatives.
    By Eric Levitz
  19. Trump Plans to Prop Up Unprofitable Coal Plants With ‘Emergency’ AidThe administration is finalizing a plan to exacerbate climate change — and increase the cost of energy — in the name of “national security.”
    By Eric Levitz
  20. art
    The End of Nature at Storm King Art Center in New YorkA new exhibition features works by artists responding to mankind’s not so stately ordering up of a change in the world’s weather.
    By Carl Swanson
  21. the national interest
    Trump Wishes He Could Destroy Obama’s Legacy. He Hasn’t. And Won’t.A response to the pessimism of my colleague Andrew Sullivan.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. the national interest
    GOP Congressman: Rising Sea Level Caused by More Dirt on Ocean FloorA bold new scientific theory by Rep. Mo Brooks catches a scientist off guard at a congressional hearing.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. the national interest
    Trump’s Environmental Plan: Bigger Government, More PollutionThe Republican Party has forgotten the ideological reason it fell in love with coal in the first place.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. Trump Admin. Scraps NASA’s Greenhouse Gas Monitoring ProgramA NASA spokesperson said the program was a casualty of “budget constraints and higher priorities.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  27. the national interest
    The Urban Housing Crisis Is a Test for Progressive PoliticsThe failure of S.B. 827 in California shows Democrats haven’t figured out how to unlock the cities they control.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. The EPA Is Instructing Its Staff to Cast Doubt on Climate ScienceA leaked memo asks officials to say that there are “clear gaps” in “our understanding of the role of human activity” in climate change.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. Why This Key Trump Adviser Strikes Fear Into GOP HeartsThe possibility that Gary Cohn will be replaced by Trump’s nationalist trade guru Peter Navarro has many mainstream conservatives nervous.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. the national interest
    Trump’s Climate Science-Disputing EPA Head Also Disputes EvolutionThe good news is that Scott Pruitt doesn’t only hate scientific theories that are bad for oil companies.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. Study: Climate Change Probably Won’t Kill All of UsThe worst-case scenario for climate catastrophe is based on dubious premises, new research suggests.
    By Eric Levitz
  32. the national interest
    Trump’s EPA Director Says Climate Change Will Be Good for UsSome like it hot. Unfortunately, one of them runs the EPA.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. foreign affairs
    Cape Town’s Water Crisis Should Be a Warning to the WorldMajor cities running dry are a predictable consequence of climate change, population growth, and poor water management.
    By Jonah Shepp
  34. climate change
    Climate Change Might Force Tabasco to Find a New HomeRising sea levels are coming fast for its 150-year-old home on the Louisiana coast.
    By Clint Rainey
  37. President Trump Tells Piers Morgan That Polar Ice Caps Are Doing GreatAlso, did you hear the dodo is flourishing?
    By Benjamin Hart
  38. the national interest
    Trump’s Solar Tax Will Hurt Trump More Than SolarThe administration has a new tariff on something people really like.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. Most of the National Park Service Advisory Board Just Quit in ProtestMembers said Interior secretary Ryan Zinke refused to meet with them, and they’re concerned about Trump administration policies that ignore science.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. the national interest
    Why Conservatives Outsourced Environmental Policy to Lobbyists and KooksA revealingly credulous profile in conservatism’s flagship magazine.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. climate change
    The Rockefellers vs. Exxon, the Company That Made Them the RockefellersThe family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  42. hurricane maria
    Las Secuelas de María son la Verdadera Tragedia HumanitariaEl saldo de muertes del huracán en Puerto Rico amenaza con eclipsar el de Katrina.
    By Mattathias Schwartz
  43. shortages
    New Research Says Chocolate Could Be Extinct by 2050A not-so-sweet start to 2018.
    By Clint Rainey
  44. hurricane maria
    Hurricane Maria Was a Natural Catastrophe. The Aftermath Is a Man-Made Disaster.The death toll from the storm in Puerto Rico is threatening to eclipse Katrina’s.
    By Mattathias Schwartz
  45. France to Ban Oil and Gas Drilling by 2040Emmanuel Macron wants to “Make Our Planet Great Again.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  46. Trump Administration Dropping Climate Change As National Security ThreatHurricanes, floods, and fires don’t count.
    By Benjamin Hart
  49. Climate Change Has Come for Los AngelesWe are entering a new era where our cities are no longer safe.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  50. natural disasters
    California Governor on Wildfires: ‘This Is the New Normal’And, as if climate change wasn’t a big enough problem, the GOP tax cuts also pose a threat to disaster victims.
    By Chas Danner
  51. Worldwide Carbon Emissions Projected to Rise Again This YearTurns out we hadn’t seen the peak yet.
    By Benjamin Hart
  52. Syria Leaves U.S. As Complete Outlier on Paris Climate DealWhen you’ve lost Bashar al-Assad …
    By Benjamin Hart
  53. climate change
    These Kids Are Suing Trump Over His Climate-Change PoliciesTwo kids, ages seven and 11, are fighting to prevent Trump from rolling back the Clean Power Plan.
    By Katie Van Syckle
  54. New Govt. Climate Report Says Earth Is Getting Hotter and Humans Are to BlameThe Trump administration has a few people who disagree.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  55. news you can booze
    BrewDog Trolls Trump on Climate Change With Beer Made From Melted-Ice-Cap WaterIt will be dispensed from a tap inside of a life-size replica of a polar bear.
    By Clint Rainey
  56. EPA Prevents Scientists From Speaking About Climate Change at ConferenceEPA head Scott Pruitt is a climate change skeptic.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  57. 7 Months Pregnant and Trapped in a Hurricane“I thought: My baby and I are going to drown.”
    By Lauren Lunar, as told to Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
  58. climate change
    This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change — That Will Be WorseThe wildfires raging in California, the hurricanes that battered the United States: they are only the beginning of what is to come.
    By David Wallace-Wells
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