Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he plans to hold a vote on the progressives’ Green New Deal, a move that could put Democrats — including several presidential hopefuls — on record backing a plan that Republicans have derided as a “socialist fantasy.” “I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal and […]
McConnell: Senate Will Vote on the Green New Deal…
New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Observatory Tied for 2nd Coldest Place on Earth at -36°F…
The weather recorded on Sunday at the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire was a relatively balmy -5 degrees below zero Fahrenheit with a wind chill of merely -40 degrees Fahrenheit. But on Saturday, the non-profit tweeted that the weather at Mount Washington Observatory, which sits 6,288 feet above sea level, was tied for the […]
Pruitt’s EPA Axes Half of Key Scientific Review Panel…
Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has abruptly dismissed as many as half the members of a key scientific review board, and is seeking to replace them with representatives of the very industries the agency is tasked with policing. “Today, I was Trumped,” wrote Robert Richardson, an environmental economist at Michigan State University and former […]
Spicer: Trump Will Not Announce Paris Climate Decision Until After G7…
President Donald Trump will not announce whether the United States will pull out of the Paris climate agreement until after he returns from the G7 leaders’ summit in late May, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. “The president has been meeting with his team for quite a while on this matter,” Spicer told […]
Is Global Warming Policy Really All About Destroying Capitalism? UN Official Says So…
United Nations official Christiana Figueres “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution” and shares even more…