Fossil fuels

NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force

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By Glynn Wilson – As a leading agency observing and understanding environmental changes to planet Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday that it officially joined the National Climate Task Force created by President Joe Biden in an executive order issued an Jan. 27, which outlined details of the task force directing all…

Maryland Attorney General Joins Multi-State Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration for Curtailing Public Participation and Reviews Under the National Environmental Policy Act

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By Glynn Wilson – Maryland Attorney has joined a multi-state lawsuit including 27 state and municipal plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration’s final rule curtailing requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that say federal agencies must review and assess the impact of their actions on the environment. The Trump administration’s “final rule” also limits…

Scientists Project Active, Deadly 2020 Hurricane Season

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But is data missing from computer models on ocean temperatures due to the coronavirus? – By Glynn Wilson – As if the world were not under assault from enough disasters, scientists recently released the projections for hurricane season 2020 and the forecast is not reassuring, in spite of global cooling due to reduced carbon emissions…

Earth Day: A Decade Later, Our Oceans and Wildlife Still at Risk

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By Michele Harmon – Ten years ago this month, our community experienced the worst environmental disaster in the history of our country. In fact, the spill was 30 percent larger than originally calculated, and deadlier. Below the surface, “invisible oil” was hidden from view of satellites that were intended to capture the extent of the…

Science Proves That 2019 Was the Second Warmest Year on Record

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Yes, the global warming is caused by human activities – By Glynn Wilson – The science is in. Yes, planet Earth is still growing hotter, and 2019 was the second hottest year since records have been kept beginning in 1880. And yes, the global warming is caused by humans burning fossil fuels for energy. There…

Thirty States and Local Governments File Motion in Federal Court to Intervene in Lawsuits and Defend EPA’s Authority to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Dirty, Coal-Fired Power Plants

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maryland’s attorney general filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday joining 30 states and local governments in an attempt to intervene with the federal government to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to establish air emission limits on greenhouse gases from power plants and other industrial sources…

Hurricane Dorian Floods U.S. Coast from Florida to North Carolina

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Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…

World’s Food Supply Threatened by Climate Change, New Report Warns

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By Glynn Wilson – In another international report that will be largely ignored in Washington with climate change deniers in the White House and the number of federal employees and government regulations dwindling, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland and is set to release its latest…

This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out

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Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book Falter, Bill McKibben asks, “Is it Too Late?” – Excerpted from FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. By Bill McKibben –…