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The New Yorker Trump administration: EPA studies, data must undergo political review before releaseThe GuardianThe Trump administration is mandating that any studies or data from scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency undergo review by political appointees before they can be released to the public. The communications director for Donald Trump’s …A Bad Day for the Environment,…

Gizmodo A Brief Chat With Elon Musk About Climate Change, Rex Tillerson, and Donald TrumpGizmodoYesterday Elon Musk stunned us (and just about everyone else) by tweeting in support of Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil and likely Secretary of State under the Trump administration. Musk’s public image is that of a tycoon using his influence…

Scientific American Trump Administration Orders EPA to Remove Its Climate Change Web PageScientific AmericanEditors Note: An EPA official said on Wednesday that Trump administration officials were reviewing the content of the agency’s website but had no immediate plans to remove the content on climate change, news reports said. The Trump administration has …White House Fires Back…

Washington Post Rogue Twitter accounts spring up to fight Donald Trump on climate changeWashington PostWhat started as a gritty protest by a former Badlands National Park Service employee who wanted to give President Trump a piece of his mind snowballed overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday into a Twitter movement in support of climate change.Badlands National…

Science Daily Social environment has sizable impact on health of miceScience Daily“You can detect social genetic effects even if you don’t know the specific traits that mediate how an individual is influenced by their social environment,” says Baud. “We only measured traits like healing, anxiety and body weight in mice and genotypes … and more »

OregonLive.com As Trump ignores record temperatures, taxpayers are footing the (huge) bill for climate changeLos Angeles TimesGlobal temperatures were the highest on record in 2016 for the third straight year, scientists at NASA and elsewhere reported last week. This is just the latest proof of rapid climate change that has experts and governments around the…

Reuters Republicans to kill US rules on corruption, environment, labor and guns next weekReutersOther rules eyed for quick overturning by Congress include newly minted environmental, gun control and labor relations measures, sources said. Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can use simple majority votes to stop recent regulations in … and more »

Metro Powerful images show impact of global warming on Greenland’s ice sheetMetroThe overwhelming impact of global warming on Greenland’s enormous ice sheet has been documented in a series of powerful images. Photographer Timo Lieber took the pictures while flying over the 695,000 square mile expanse and has now put them on …

These heroic guerrilla scientists and librarians are racing to save environmental data from TrumpQuartzFor the United States, the two big environmental flashpoints of 2016 were clearly the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and the Standing Rock Sioux’s rejection of the North Dakota Access Pipeline. Both of these major controversies were about the safety of …

International Business Times Trump Orders EPA To Take Down Global Warming Web-PageDaily CallerThe Trump administration told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take down its global warming webpage, an anonymous EPA staffer said. “If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear,” the staffer told …Donald Trump orders Environmental…