Global Financial Giants Swear Off Funding an Especially Dirty Fuel

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Lenders and investors, under pressure to act on climate change, have stopped funding Alberta’s vast oil-sands developments, and the province is fighting back. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/climate/blackrock-oil-sands-alberta-financing.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

How a Trillion Trees Triumphed Over Trump’s Climate Denialism

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/climate/trump-trees-climate-change.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

A Rare Trump-Era Climate Policy Hits an Obstacle: The Tax Man

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment At least a dozen carbon capture projects are remain blocked because the I.R.S. has yet to explain how, exactly, companies can claim the tax credit that would make the projects viable. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/climate/carbon-capture-tax.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Federal Bill Seeks to Make Companies Responsible for Plastic Waste

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The legislation, to be introduced Tuesday, has little chance of becoming a law, but the effort shows the increased influence of environmental groups in taking on recycling issues. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/recycling-law.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Your Foam Coffee Cup Is Fighting for Its Life

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Dart Container Corporation, which makes foam products, is a manufacturing behemoth and produced a fortune for the family behind it. Environmentalists say its products are polluting the globe. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/dart-foam-recycling.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Antarctica Sets Record High Temperature: 64.9 Degrees

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment “This is the foreshadowing of what is to come,” a researcher said. “It’s exactly in line of what we’ve been seeing for decades.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/climate/antarctica-record-temperature.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Justice Department Drops Antitrust Probe Against Automakers That Sided With California on Emissions

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Justice Department has told four carmakers that they violated no laws when they negotiated a fuel economy standard with California that is more stringent than Washington’s. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/climate/trump-california-automakers-antitrust.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Wild Storms and Shifting Ice: Two Explorers Talk About Arctic Life

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Two of the nearly 100 people on a ship stuck in an ice floe for a year explain what it’s like to live in polar darkness while studying how the Arctic’s climate is changing.  Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/climate/mosiac-mission-arctic-climate-change-photos.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Trump Opens National Monument Land to Energy Exploration

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Trump administration finalized plans to open land once in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to mining and oil and gas exploration. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/climate/trump-grand-staircase-monument.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. In her latest, ‘Weather,’ she uses this small form to address the climate collapse. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/magazine/jenny-offill-weather-book.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Can the World’s Strangest Mammal Survive?

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Habitat loss, predation by feral cats, and now wildfires wrought by climate change — how long can the world’s strangest mammal survive? Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/science/platypus-australia-wildfires.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

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