Bernie Sanders, climate hawk, spends nearly $300K on private jet travel in month
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s re-election campaign spent just under $300,000 on private jet use in October, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.
Alongside Sanders and McKibben, Ocasio-Cortez says ‘Green New Deal’ good for pushing ‘social and racial justice’
Democratic Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said the “Green New Deal” plan she supports would be used to achieve liberal “economic, social and racial justice” goals along with fighting global warming.
France now scrapping global warming taxes that the UN thinks should be doubled
The French government was forced to scrap plans to increase taxes on carbon dioxide emissions Tuesday after weeks of protests, but the planned carbon taxes were not nearly as high as what the United Nations recommends.
A growing number of states are rushing to save their nuclear plants
The Millstone Nuclear Power Station — the only nuclear plant in Connecticut and the largest in New England — will likely soon be able to participate in Connecticut’s support program for carbon-free energy.
UN climate summit to emit more CO2 than 8,200 American homes do in a year
This year’s United Nations climate summit will have a carbon footprint equivalent to the yearly electricity usage of more than 8,200 American households, according to the international body’s own figures.
McClaughry: That really scary climate report
The report, relying on passive constructions such as “is projected to be,” seems to collect all of the contentions made by climate alarmists over the past 30 years and announce them again with a redoubled sense of urgency.
State treasurer weighs in on vehicle emission standards
State Treasurer Beth Pearce is urging the Environmental Protection Agency and highway safety administrators to think again about rolling back vehicle emission standards.
Landowners hail property rights victory at Supreme Court in frog habitat dispute
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Fish and Wildlife Service was wrong to designate a 1,500 acre tract of land in Louisiana as a “critical habitat” for the endangered dusky gopher frog.
Trump on new dire climate report warnings: ‘I don’t believe it’
“Right now, we’re at the cleanest we’ve ever been, and that’s very important to me. But if we’re clean but every other place on Earth on is dirty, that’s not so good,” Trump said.
A top claim in newest US climate report relies on research tied to major Democratic donors
That 2017 study, published in the journal Science, was funded in part by Bloomberg Philanthropies and Next Generation, which were founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer, respectively.
McClaughry: The dusky gopher frog
Among the cases to be heard before the Supreme Court his year is Edward Poitevant’s appeal to get out from the shackles of the Endangered Species Act.
Vermont Conservation Voters set environmentalist priorities for new supermajority Legislature
The Vermont Conservation Voters is set to push “a range of environmental priorities in the coming session” following an election landslide that gave Democrats and Progressives a supermajority at the Statehouse.