Texas, Trump and Climate Change
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The Trump administration has hired three prominent researchers who over the course of their careers have questioned and even rejected the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. Each were given positions in the Energy Department, which is led by Secretary Chris Wright, a former oil and gas fracking executive.
Democrats criticize Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service and his approach to climate change after at least 59 people died in major Texas floods that occurred over the July 4th holiday.
The move is part of a broader reorganization that includes the elimination of the Office of Global Change, which handles U.S. climate negotiations.
Federal officials are considering reopening vast areas of public lands in Wyoming and Montana to new coal sales.
The U.S. Energy Department has hired two Alabama scientists who are well-known for their skepticism about human-influenced climate change. The New York Times is reporting that John Christy, Alabama’s state climatologist since 2000,
US retreat from climate commitments under the Trump administration will have “significant consequences” for the planet, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews at The Europe Conversation.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.
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