Articles Tagged with ''climate change''

Studies sound the alarm over the risks Superfund sites face due to a variety of factors related to climate change, such as inland flooding and wildfires. 

Coalition of 24 states, 10 cities and five counties sued federal agency in US court to reverse repeal of core scientific basis to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants and other sources—with battle headed for US Supreme Court.. 

As Lake Powell drops toward critical thresholds, engineers are making long-term infrastructure decisions even as Colorado River rules remain unresolved.

What happens to permitting, design assumptions and risk models if the federal research backbone behind U.S. weather forecasting, NCAR, is broken apart?

Attending nations, which did not include the U.S. officially, left international climate meetings at the UN-hosted event in Brazil with mixed results. 

Experts cite mistakes and mischaracterizations in administration report being used to bolster overhaul of U.S. environmental and energy policy. 

The Trump administration proposes to revoke the Obama-era endangerment finding related to greenhouse gas impacts on climate change damage—and along with it, eased vehicle tailpipe emissions regulations. 

While development of one federal science-based database has resumed, many public-facing agency websites with climate and weather information have been disabled. 

The budget bill signed by President Donald Trump on July 4 and a more recent executive order slash renewable energy credits in favor of coal, gas and nuclear support, triggering expected sector upheaval and backlash over jobs, costs and climate progress.

Some $2 billion in work is ongoing, and China has pledged another $11 billion toward infrastructure investments.