Environment

“They are using every opportunity to protect their corporate interests and continue with business as usual while the planet burns.”

If we continue in the selfish, greedy, divisive ways of the past, the weather patterns will become more extreme and unpredictable, the air and waterways will become more toxic, loss of life will increase and the associated environmental ills will deepen.

It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.

The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.

Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.

“We know very well scientifically that these extreme events are not only increasing in frequency, they’re also increasing in duration and intensity.”

“ExxonMobil’s advertising and marketing mislead the public by presenting ExxonMobil’s clean energy activities as a significant proportion of its overall business.”

Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.

“Today’s decision is the perfect Inauguration Day present for America.”

Koch Industries has a business interest in both pipelines, though their approval has not been something its funded network has widely discussed.