Some people in the storms’ path wonder if budget cuts contributed to the death and destruction.
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Kentucky-Missouri Storms Came as Trump Made Cuts to National Weather Service Read Post »
The plan to eliminate the US Geological Survey’s biological research division is straight from Project 2025’s playbook.
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An Important Arm of This Agency Could Vanish Next Week If Trump Has His Way Read Post »
States are facing enormous costs in the wake of floods, wildfires, and other disasters worsened by climate change.
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11 States Are Eyeing Laws to Make Fossil Fuel Industry Pay for Climate Crisis Read Post »
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies must be tied to new subsidies that raise living standards for working and poor people.
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A Fraction of What We Pay in Fossil Fuel Subsidies Could Fund a Just Transition Read Post »
The loss of staffing and programs is one more blow to the US’s ability to respond to and recover from disasters.
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DOGE Has Gutted AmeriCorps. What Happens When the Next Disaster Strikes? Read Post »
Looking ahead to another hot summer, we can only hope that cuts don’t foreshadow a growing yet preventable death toll.
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As Costs and Temperatures Rise, Trump Moves to Gut Low-Income Energy Assistance Read Post »
The president’s push to expand timber and fossil fuel production “is a double whammy on the climate.”
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Trump’s Order to Expand Logging Threatens to Increase Climate-Fueled Wildfires Read Post »
Even a single day of exposure to extreme heat can lead to complications for pregnant people.
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Heat-Risk Days for Pregnant People Have Doubled Worldwide Over Last 5 Years Read Post »
The Apache have been fighting a legal battle over the future of Oak Flat, which has been targeted for mining.
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Trump’s Race for Green Energy Resources Isn’t About Climate — It’s About Greed Read Post »
2024 was the hottest year in human history, and countries show no signs of reining in planet-wrecking fossil fuels.
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Climate Justice Organizers Hold Mock Funeral for 1.5ºC Paris Agreement Target Read Post »
Facing record-breaking fires and floods, and Trump attacks, the state alleges a “decades-long campaign of deception.”
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Hawai’i Isn’t Backing Down From Its Lawsuit Against Big Oil Over Climate Crisis Read Post »
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database has been around since 1980.
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Trump White House Terminates Climate Tracker Examining Billion-Dollar Disasters Read Post »
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