Saturday, August 29, 2026

How long before this storm turns political?

What's at stake in 2024 — from (my) rural America.

EPA moves to reclassify Clean Air Act waivers

The Agency claimed that "California’s standards could impose costs on ports, shipping and supply chains," but Environmental groups and California regulators dispute that interpretation.

I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist

What was going on at Exxon?

Under Trump air pollution has increased for the first time in nearly a decade

“We had expected that things would be getting worse—and that they would perhaps be getting worse in lots of places.”

Can we afford a fair global climate transition?

The cost of transformation is not cheap, but consider the alternatives.

1.8 billion tons more greenhouse gases will be released, thanks to Trump

"If we don't have a stable environment to live in, there's no way to have life, liberty, or pursue happiness."

Breaking: Activists Reportedly Shut Down Five Pipelines Carrying Tar Sands Oil into U.S.

Activists successfully shut down five pipelines across the U.S. that deliver tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada.

Humans destroyed intact ecosystem land the size of Mexico in just 13 years

“Intact lands are relied on by biodiversity for habitat, and by people for ecosystem services such as climate regulation and clean water.”

Four years of Donald Trump could sink the planet

If Trump isn’t going to pare CO2 emissions significantly, then the US alone could cook the planet, even if China and others act more responsibly.

California votes to protect mountain lions under the state Endangered Species Act

The vote secured the Southern California and Central Coast mountain lions as a distinct population segment (DPS) and listed both populations as threatened under CESA because of their vulnerability to these threats and becoming locally extinct.