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Climate Science teacher overcomes a stubborn obstacle: students

by Amy Harmon, New York Times WELLSTON, Ohio — To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher’s lessons on climate change seemed explicitly designed to provoke her. So she provoked him back. When the teacher, James Sutter, ascribed the recent warming of the Earth […]

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement actually does us a favor

by Carl Pope, Huffington Post Donald Trump has done what Al Gore, Jim Hansen, climate scientists, the Sierra Club and the rest of the environmental movement could never do – make climate disruption breaking cable TV news. Trump’s histrionic, largely symbolic and recklessly self-destructive decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement means, among other things, […]

Acidified ocean water widespread along North American West Coast

by Oregon State University College os Science CORVALLIS, Ore. – A three-year survey of the California Current System along the West Coast of the United States found persistent, highly acidified water throughout this ecologically critical nearshore habitat, with “hotspots” of pH measurements as low as any oceanic surface waters in the world. The researchers say […]

California and Canada are teaming up to fight climate change — again

by Sammy Roth, Desert Sun As President Donald Trump dithers on the fate of the Paris climate deal, California and other western states are banding together to reduce carbon emissions and save hundreds of millions of dollars — and now a Canadian province will join them. British Columbia’s main electric utility said Tuesday it will join the Energy Imbalance […]

How New York is building the renewable energy grid of the future

by Leslie Kaufman, Inside Climate News This is a story of ripping up old incentives that encouraged selling as much electricity as possible, then unleashing the entrepreneurs. New York State is making a $5 billion bet that by making its power cleaner, it can become a magnet for the clean energy jobs of the future. Its efforts […]

Trump budget plan targets climate science, clean energy innovation for deep cuts

by Zahra Hirji, Georgina Gustin, and Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News Research and development in clean cars and renewable energy would be slashed more than 70 percent, NASA climate programs would be cut, and EPA would lose 31 percent. President Donald Trump‘s budget plan for fiscal year 2018 systematically takes a knife to climate research and programs […]

GOP fails to kill methane rule in a Capitol Hill defeat for oil and gas industry

by Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News The rule limits venting and flaring gas, a move the Obama administration estimated would prevent 180,000 tons of methane from leaking into the atmosphere every year. The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bid to overturn an Obama-era rule that limits climate-warming methane leaks from oil and gas operations on […]

In Brooklyn, you can sell solar power to your neighbors

By Jeremy Deaton, Nexus Media A cutting-edge technology offers a new way to trade electricity In Brooklyn, you can buy honey collected from an urban beehive. You can buy lettuce grown atop an old bowling alley. And now, you can purchase free range, gluten free, fresh, organic solar power right off your neighbor’s roof. Brooklyn startup LO3 Energy is revolutionizing the […]

China and India make big strides on climate change

by the Editorial Board, New York Times Until recently, China and India have been cast as obstacles, at the very least reluctant conscripts, in the battle against climate change. That reputation looks very much out-of-date now that both countries have greatly accelerated their investments in cost-effective renewable energy sources — and reduced their reliance on […]