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Newsweek Global Climate Change Battles Increasingly Being Won in CourtNewsweekFrom South Africa to the Netherlands to Austria, lawsuits are increasingly a check on political inaction.U of O professor defends EPA’s climate change workHerald and NewsThe climate change lawsuit the Trump administration is desperate to stop going to trialThe IndependentClimate Change under TrumpTufts NowNew York Times –Bloomberg –Triple…

Irish Times Ireland’s climate–change plan: hot air or real action?Irish TimesNaughten says he wants not to preach to people about climate change but to get their views, so that we can work together to become a low-carbon, climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable economy. “The reality is that we are on a journey seeking a …Why Soil Could Make…

Huffington Post California Girds To Battle Feds To Save The EnvironmentHuffington PostBut its progressive environmental standards rely on a kind of special dispensation from the federal government. The Clean Air Act gave the EPA authority to grant a waiver of national emissions standards to California if it enacted tougher regulations …A ‘Freedom Caucus’ for the…

Chicago Tribune Oceans storing up staggering amounts of heat: ‘the memory of all of the past climate change‘Chicago TribuneThe world is getting warmer every year, thanks to climate change – but where exactly most of that heat is going may be a surprise. As a stunning early spring blooms across the U.S., just weeks after…

Huffington Post EPA Head Scott Pruitt Riles Global–warming AlarmistsThe New AmericanEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt (shown) was on CNBC’s Squawk Box news and talk program March 9, and expressed disagreement with the commonly held opinion that carbon dioxide is the primary contributor to global warming. “I think that measuring with …Scott Pruitt: Global warmingThe Seattle TimesNew US…

STLtoday.com Editorial: Old-school conservatives float a solid climate–change planSTLtoday.comLast month, a group of former Republican Party heavyweights — conservatives to their cores — unveiled a sensible plan to address climate change through a refundable tax on carbon. The plan landed in official Washington with a barely audible thud. and more »

The New Yorker Scott Pruitt Rejects Climate–Change RealityThe New YorkerScott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency, was explaining to CNBC’s Joe Kernen that the Paris climate accord was “a bad deal,” with provisions that were “not an America First type of approach,” when Kernen …EPA’s Scott Pruitt denies climate change science…

E&E News Heat on Trump’s top environment officialNew Zealand HeraldScott Pruitt, who was visiting the energy industry conference CERAWeek in Houston, waded into related controversial topics during his CNBC interview. Photo / AP. Scott Pruitt, the United States’ top environmental official, has strongly rejected the …A ‘Freedom Caucus’ for the environment?E&E NewsCERAWeek: EPA Director Envisions…

USA TODAY Fact check: Scott Pruitt on climate change, againUSA TODAYThe head of the Environmental Protection Agency told CNBC that he “would not agree” that “human activity,” or carbon dioxide emissions, is the “primary contributor” to global warming. But climate scientists say it’s “extremely likely” that human …Climate change denier leading the EPA? So long,…

Scientific American EPA Chief Pruitt Refuses to Link CO2 and Global WarmingScientific AmericanWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change and said he wants Congress to weigh in on whether CO2 is…