by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 17, 2017 | EcoRight News
This week’s must read: Republicans Break Ranks with Pledge to Fight Climate Change (Bloomberg) This week’s must watch: Rep. Elise Stefanik takes to the House floor. This week, amid concerns that President Donald Trump’s proposed budget framework...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 17, 2017 | EcoRight News
We couldn’t pick our favorite absurd climate change comment of the week, so the ClimateEye Jester hat goes jointly to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe.Mulvaney, in defending President Donald Trump’s budget...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 15, 2017 | EcoRight News
Seventeen House Republicans, led by Reps. Elise Stefanik (NY-21), Carlos Curbelo (FL-26) and Ryan Costello (PA-6) re-introduced a climate change resolution with a record level of support. The measure, previously championed by now retired Rep. Chris Gibson, is mostly...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 14, 2017 | EcoRight News
In written response to questions for the record posed during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that climate change is “impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 10, 2017 | EcoRight News
This week’s must read: An Opportunity for Environmentalists It’s been a crazy week in climate change news with Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, dismissing human activity as a main cause of climate change....
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 9, 2017 | EcoRight News
In an interview with CNN, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt dismissed human activity as a main cause of climate change.”I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s...
