Pro vs. con view
Topic space viewTrump doesn't believe U.S. government predictions of huge economic losses from climate change
President Trump on Monday said he doesn’t believe his administration’s new report that predicted climate change would shave 10 percent off the U.S. economy by the end of the century.
Obama's fragile climate legacy
President Barack Obama wants to be remembered as the president who saved the world from climate change. But the 195-nation accord aimed at curbing global warming may be the most fragile of his presidential achievements so far. More than any of his other top accomplishments—economic recovery, health care reform, the Iran deal, all of which involved Congress to some extent—Obama’s environmental legacy rests on the exercise of executive power over the objections of Republican lawmakers.
The cost of climate change: Cold, hard cash sought for support of Obama’s deal
Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa was explicit earlier this year when asked what it would take for developing countries to sign up for the emerging U.S.-led climate deal: “Money.”
Obama urges world action on climate change: ‘Hour is almost upon us’
President Obama sought to rally world leaders at a climate summit on Monday, declaring that “no nation large or small, wealthy or poor, is immune” to challenges such as global warming and urged political action even if the benefits are not seen for generations.
New York Lost A Landmark Climate Fraud Case Against Exxon
A New York judge ruled Tuesday that ExxonMobil did not make misleading statements in public disclosures about the company’s climate change risks, delivering a major win to the oil giant in the highly anticipated climate fraud case. New York Supreme Court Judge Barry Ostrager found that the New York attorney general “failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence” that the oil giant violated the law “in connection with its public disclosures concerning how ExxonMobil accounted for past, present, and future climate change risks,” according to his decision. The...
Exxon wins first-of-its-kind climate change case against New York
ExxonMobil won a first-of-its-kind climate change fraud trial on Tuesday as a judge rejected the state of New York's claim that the oil and gas giant misled investors in accounting for the financial risks of global warming. New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager said the state failed to prove that Exxon violated the Martin Act, a broad state law that does not require proof of intent of shareholder fraud. “The office of the Attorney General failed to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that ExxonMobil made any material...
Dems Unveil 2021 Agenda to Tackle Climate Change as Wildfires Rage on West Coast
Democrats on Thursday unveiled a new agenda for climate change amid a backdrop of raging wildfires burning on the West Coast. The plan also includes a bicameral resolution on racial injustice and economic recovery. At least 79 members of Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Ma., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, back the THRIVE agenda, which stands for “Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy.” “Our country is facing crises that are fatefully intertwined: tens of millions of people are unemployed, the COVID-19...
Students swarm field at Harvard-Yale football game, chant ‘OK boomer’ in climate change protest
Hundreds of climate change protesters swarmed the field during halftime of the annual Harvard-Yale football game Saturday, delaying the action for nearly an hour as students chanted “OK boomer” and as police made arrests and issued summonses for disorderly conduct. Players from both teams joined demonstrators on the field in a showstopping escalation of long-running campaigns for the two schools to stop investing their endowments in fossil fuels and forgive Puerto Rican debt. Protesters sat at the 50-yard line at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., arms linked and...
Retirement of Rep. Henry Waxman leaves climate void
Rep. Henry Waxman’s retirement will create a vacuum for House leadership on climate change, though allies say the California Democrat has helped cultivated a young crop of like-minded lawmakers to fill the void.
Deal-makers and fighters make up Biden’s new climate team
Joe Biden wrapped up a team heavy on deal-makers and fighters to lead his climate effort Thursday, tasking it with remaking and cleaning up the nation’s transportation and power-plant systems, and as fast as politically possible. While the president-elect’s picks have the experience to do the heavy lifting required in a climate overhaul of the U.S. economy, they also seem to be reassuring skeptics that he won’t neglect the low-income, working class and minority communities hit hardest by fossil fuel pollution and climate change.
