I spoke to RFK Jr about his climate policy. He's running to Biden's left with a proposed LNG export ban and to Trump's right with climate conspiracies about 'totalitarian control.' He doesn't worry that helping Trump win decimates his environmental legacy. eenews.net/articles/rfk-j…

By year's end, the roof of the Buffalo Tesla factory will be covered with solar panels.

But even though the company sells solar panels, it's not using its own. Instead, the panels came from China.

It shows how much of Tesla's solar business is outsourced
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If Trump wins a second term, his allies want to commercialize the National Weather Service, stop NOAA from researching climate and prevent the National Hurricane Center from taking a side in the 'climate debate.' eenews.net/articles/trump…

EPA has chosen eight non-profit organizations to pump $20 billion in IRA dollars into green projects around the country. My piece in Climatewire: eenews.net/articles/us-st…

RFK Jr's running mate broadcast a series of environmental and autism-related conspiracy theories, claiming falsely that autism is a chronic disease that can be traced to environmental and 'electromagnetic' pollution. eenews.net/articles/kenne…

Trump allies want to transform USAID into an agency that boosts fossil fuel production, eliminates climate efforts and sends more $ to faith-based organizations more likely to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community. w/Sara Schonhardt eenews.net/articles/usaid…

A second Trump term could bar the Pentagon from using climate science. For decades, the Pentagon has used climate research to protect bases, to predict geopolitical chaos and to secure the Arctic from increased threats from China and Russia. eenews.net/articles/trump…

Alarming analysis from Gavin Schmidt 'We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.' nature.com/articles/d4158…

One of Trump's favorite economists, and a top contender to become his Federal Reserve chair is a big carbon tax fan. eenews.net/articles/trump…

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-Museum of Chinese in America's new president on the museum's future,
-Josie Cox on financial equality for women,
-Jeanna Smialek on a millennial 'micro-generation,' born in '90 or '91

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As congressional Republicans continue trying to find their footing on conservative climate policies, the party is about to nominate Trump, who continues to dismiss climate change as a hoax

Here's how the GOP is navigating that eenews.net/articles/how-c… via Emma Dumain

Finally published after weeks of reporting!
How a neglected post-war photography archive was rediscovered, saved, meticulously digitized -- all 1.7 million physical prints! -- and is now informing ground-breaking new research on Earth's past (and future). eenews.net/articles/beer-…

With the LNG pause, Biden finds himself in a remarkably similar place to where Andrew Cuomo was with a fracking moratorium in 2014, when he was also running for re-election. Biden could lose progressives forever if he doesn't turn the pause into a ban. eenews.net/articles/what-…

If Trump is re-elected, a proposed executive order from his allies would transform the U.S. Global Change Research Program into an energy-promotion vehicle and put out a denier-friendly version of the National Climate Assessment: eenews.net/articles/rever…

Climate activists plan to push Biden hard in this election year because they want him to go further toward a fossil fuel-free future. Other Dems are worried they may hurt the re-election of a highly vulnerable president. politico.com/newsletters/po…

The DOJ found that Cuomo and his senior staff: 'subjected female employees to a sexually hostile work environment; (2) tolerated that environment and failed to correct the problem on an agency-wide basis and (3) retaliated against employees who spoke out about the harassment.'

John Kerry might not be stepping down as Climate at State immediately, but Republicans have already been thinking about ways to try and block his replacement. Emma Dumain Timothy Cama and I look at what part of a new law could mean for US climate diplomacy: eenews.net/articles/how-a…

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Young voters delivered the election to Biden and helped Democrats in key swing states in 2022 midterms. Biden doesn't risk losing them to Trump, but he does risk losing them to the living room couch. Climate policy is one way to win young people over: eenews.net/articles/biden…

“It's like a joke having this very high, prominent political figure trying to convince everyone abroad [to act]. And that same high political figure cannot convince anyone back home at the Congress level' — Lat Am negotiator

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