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Industry Groups Ask California To Delay Pollution Rules, Citing Pandemic

April 7, 2020November 18, 2021Miranda Green

LOS ANGELES — Industry groups are pushing for California regulators to delay new environmental measures, including those meant to promote clean air. Their reason: the economic stress the COVID-19 pandemic is putting on their businesses. Groups have sent at least six letters to California officials in the past two weeks requesting delays or modifications to […]

Know the facts about alcohol and climate change

February 19, 2020April 4, 2022Miranda Green

If you did dry January this year, you probably reduced your carbon footprint without knowing it. That’s because alcohol production and distribution can be quite energy intensive. So, what if you want to reduce your environmental footprint but you’re not quite ready to hop on the wagon and stay there? Whatever your poison, one of […]

After being buried by mudslides, two communities chart very different recoveries

January 10, 2020December 27, 2020Miranda Green

LA CONCHITA, Calif. — In the surfer’s paradise where Mike Bell has lived for four decades, talking about rain is blasphemy. “We have sprinkles, we have showers, we have mist, but we don’t use the ‘r’ word, because the ‘r’ word is what kills people,” he says. Fifteen years ago, after 18 inches of it […]

Judge temporarily halts drilling on Wyoming public lands over climate change

March 20, 2019December 27, 2020Miranda Green

Read the full story in The Hill» A federal judge late Tuesday temporarily blocked oil and gas drilling on thousands of acres of public land in Wyoming, ruling that the Trump administration failed to “sufficiently consider climate change.” The decision by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that the U.S. […]

New White House special climate panel to include climate denier

February 20, 2019December 27, 2020Miranda Green

Read the full story in The Hill» The White House is putting together a special panel to look into the potential effects of climate change on national security and the group will include at least one well-known climate change skeptic. The panel, called the Presidential Committee on Climate Security in the proposal, will be formed […]

CNN: Democrats Unveil “Green New Deal” To Combat Climate Change

February 4, 2019March 16, 2021Miranda Green

Less than 1% of EPA administrator’s meetings are with environmental groups

October 6, 2017March 16, 2021Miranda Green

Washington (CNN)–Scott Pruitt has made no secret of his interest in shaking things up at the EPA. The former Oklahoma attorney general spent years during the Obama administration challenging its regulations. Now working as administrator of the very same agency, he’s rolled back rules given more of a voice to industry players, meeting with them far more than environmental […]

Trump administration swaps ‘climate change’ for ‘resilience’

September 30, 2017March 16, 2021Miranda Green

Washington (CNN)–In the Trump administration’s list of dos and don’ts, “climate change” is out and “resilience” is in.The word choices by administration officials — and the extent to which they’re going to avoid referencing global warming altogether — are notable in the aftermath of recent severe hurricanes and in the face of questions about what […]

Trump doesn’t want to talk about climate change, and neither does his administration

June 2, 2017March 16, 2021Miranda Green

Washington (CNN)–President Donald Trump spent an hour Thursday talking about his commitment to economic growth and national stability as he announced the decision to back out of the Paris Climate Accord.Missing from his 2,000 word speech: any mention of climate change. After famously calling climate change a “hoax” during the campaign, Trump has avoided the […]