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The fight against climate change: four cities leading the way in the Trump era

by Oliver Milman, Joe Eskenazi, Richard Luscombe, and Tom Dart, The Guardian Wholly unintentionally, Donald Trump may have sparked unprecedented determination within the US to confront the danger of climate change. Following Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, the president was assailed by businesses ranging from Facebook to Goldman Sachs for […]

U.S. Bank becomes first major bank to stop financing pipeline construction

by Ecowatch U.S. Bank has become the first major bank in the U.S. to formally exclude gas and oil pipelines from their project financing. This groundbreaking change to their Environmental Responsibility Policy was publicly announced at the annual shareholders meeting in Nashville in April. In addition to no longer providing “project financing for the construction of oil or natural […]

Historic first vote to cap refinery greenhouse gas emissions scheduled for June 21

by Carla West, 350bayarea.org This is really it—the culmination of a very long and often difficult effort to cap local refinery pollution.  On June 21st (save the date!) the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District are expected to adopt Rule 12-16, retailored at the last hearing to focus exclusively on greenhouse emissions.  […]

A group representing $6.2 trillion of the US economy says they’re ‘still in’ the Paris climate agreement

by Madeleine Sheehan Perkins, Business Insider A coalition of US economic, education, and local government leaders announced on Monday they will continue to abide by the Paris agreement regardless of America’s withdrawal, forming the We Are Still In movement.  The coalition represents 120 million Americans and $6.2 trillion of the US economy. In total, the group includes 125 […]

In the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Koch brothers’ campaign becomes overt

By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker If there was any lingering doubt that a tiny clique of fossil-fuel barons has captured America’s energy and environmental policies, it was dispelled last week, when the Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris climate accord. Surveys showed that a majority of Americans in literally every state wanted to remain […]

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 […]