Climate Change

Scrapping Climate Protections Would Erase $300 Billion in Benefits

"The Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the nation's climate change regulations, often claiming a high cost of compliance as justification. But a new study says keeping those rules would actually save nearly $300 billion a year by 2030."

Source: InsideClimate News, 08/08/2017

"Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S."

"The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration."

Source: NY Times, 08/08/2017

Islamic State, Climate Change Seen as World’s Greatest Threats: Poll

"Climate change is essentially tied with the Islamic State as the most-feared security threat across much of the world — except in the United States, where cyberattacks are considered a greater danger than global warming, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Tuesday."

Source: NY Times, 08/03/2017

EPA Science Integrity Panel Says Pruitt Climate Denial Is Permissible

"An internal review by the Environmental Protection Agency has found that its administrator did not violate its scientific integrity policy when he contradicted a fundamental tenet of climate science by denying that carbon dioxide pollution is the principal agent of global warming."

Source: InsideClimate News, 08/02/2017

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