Trump, Environmental Protection Agency and climate change
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An opinion by the World Court finds new legal requirements in the Paris Agreement, raising legal questions about the U.S. signing the treaty with Senate approval
If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.
In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that countries are legally obliged to prevent “significant harm to the climate system.
The EPA administrator made several inaccurate comments on a right-wing podcast ahead of rolling back the endangerment finding.
In Indianapolis, climate change is not just a future threat — it is already worsening heat, flooding and air quality.
Tourism is also affected, with changes in seasonal activities. Warmer and shorter winters are making it harder to sell skiing and snowmobiling equipment, much less operate hills and trails. And more frequent heat waves, extreme rain events and vanishing fish populations are making summer events less predictable.
The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it?
Scientists are sounding the alarm on hot summer nights, saying they are quietly becoming a worrisome consequence of climate change -- and a public health concern.
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Space.com on MSNNASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do soA major climate report, the U.S. government's primary, peer-reviewed climate assessment that is completed every four to five years, will not be published on NASA's website, reversing course after the White House indicated the space agency would make the document publicly available online.
The impact of climate change on the state is as varied as its landscape. From vast forests and rolling farms that line the Eastern Shore to the 80.9 square miles of Baltimore City scattered with heat islands, different areas of the state will be affected by climate change in vastly different ways.
The oceanic "twilight zone" lies deep, and teems with life. We look at how this mysterious zone affects climate change.