Environmental Glance
Forget the climate warriors of California. The state best positioned to spoil Donald Trump’s plan to unleash America’s fossil-fuel resources may be New York.
In the past year, New York regulators have blocked two major natural gas pipelines -- a $455 million proposal by National Fuel Gas Co. and a $925 million one from Williams Partners LP -- on the grounds that they pose environmental risks. One bank’s saying investors have no choice but to assign “elevated risk premiums” to energy projects in the state, National Fuel Gas is threatening to take its money elsewhere and Williams’s chief executive officer said Wednesday that he’s in talks with the White House on how the administration can help.
New York Threatens to Spoil Trump's Push for Fossil Fuels
Obama: Private Sector Is Key to Tackling Climate Change
Former U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he is "confident that the United States will continue to move in the right direction" on climate change despite his successor's pledges to undo many of his policies.
On his first foreign foray since leaving the presidency, Obama told an audience at a conference on food innovation in Italy that businesses in the United States are already committed to clean energy because it is cost-saving, which would help counteract moves by the Trump administration.
EPA website buries youth guide to climate change
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has buried a climate change website aimed at kids, the Washington Post reported, citing a public watchdog group.
Last month, the EPA removed several pages from its website — including those related to climate change — as part of an update to "reflect the agency's new direction under" President Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.
Keystone XL: the final leg and the myth of Trump's job promise
Nebraska is the last hope for stopping this,” says Art Tanderup, sitting on the lawn close to the solar panels that provide most of the energy to his farm. Spring comes a little earlier here than in South Dakota and Montana. The 2ft deep snow drifts that had blanketed the farmland melted a month ago, revealing acres of harvested corn stubble that is now being readied for replanting.
This year’s crop cycle brings with it a sense of unprecedented foreboding for Tanderup and his wife Helen, who returned to the century-old family farm in 2011, hoping for a quiet retirement.
Keystone pipeline defiance triggers further assault on citizens' rights
Bret Clanton might not belong to the most obvious group of opponents to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. But when a survey crew from TransCanada arrived on his property eight years ago, the rancher and registered Republican – worried they were cattle thieves – says he called the sheriff’s department, and marched out to confront them.
He says the encounter changed his life, and set up a battle that would come to dominate his existence.
On the outer perimeter of the Clanton ranch, where three large sandstone rock formations stand over the otherwise empty horizon, TransCanada later told him it planned to dig up three miles of his land and lay a section of the Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada also hopes to bulldoze along another two and half miles of his pastures to make way for an access road.
In photos: Thousands participate in People's Climate March
Around 150,000 people attended the People's Climate March on the White House on April 29, 2017 -- President Donald Trump's 100th day in office -- in support of political action to combat climate change.
Several thousand people also marched near Los Angeles and in other cities nationwide.
Climate protests to mark Trump's 100 days in office
The Peoples Climate Marches in dozens of cities including the U.S. capital, are part of a broader effort to build momentum behind candidates with strong environmental records for next year's midterm elections and the 2020 presidential race, organizers said.
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