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Trump taps climate skeptic for top White House environmental post

October 13, 2017 at 10:49 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Thursday tapped Kathleen Hartnett-White, a former chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, to head a key White House office that coordinates environmental and energy...

Scientists find that belching cows could solve a key mystery about the atmosphere

September 29, 2017 at 4:19 p.m.

When it comes to climate change, we know where the most important warming agent - carbon dioxide - is coming from. Most of it is coming from the burning of...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry speaks during a White House daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House June 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposes sweeping new moves to support coal and nuclear plants

November 16, 2017 at 7:10 p.m.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry took sweeping steps on Friday to buttress a pair of financially-strapped nuclear plants under construction and redefine how coal and nuclear plants are compensated for the...

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What you can and can’t say about climate change and Hurricane Harvey

August 25, 2017 at 11:18 p.m.

With a major hurricane forecast to make landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2005, we may be fated for another debate about how climate change does, and...

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AEP announces $2.4 million wind farm despite Trump energy policy

July 27, 2017 at 5:41 p.m.

One of the largest U.S. power companies, American Electric Power, announced plans on Wednesday to build the nation's biggest wind farm in Oklahoma, a strong signal of continued growth for...

U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the ...

Just don’t call it “climate change”: Rebranding government in the age of Trump

May 26, 2017 at 11:33 p.m.

"Climate change" is out. "Resilience" is in. "Victims of domestic violence" are now "victims of crime." Foreign aid for refugee rights has become aid to protect "national security." "Clean energy...

Thanks to global warming, Antarctica is starting to turn green

May 18, 2017 at 9:26 p.m.

Researchers in Antarctica have discovered rapidly growing banks of mosses on the ice continent's northern peninsula, providing striking evidence of climate change in the coldest and most remote parts of...

Wind turbines operate at NREL鈥檚 National Wind Technology Center south of Boulder.

Trump’s budget expected to massively slash research on renewable energy – and NREL’s budget

May 18, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.

The Trump administration is expected to propose massive cuts to federal government research on wind and solar energy next week. The proposed cuts, would reverberate dramatically at the National Renewable...

EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades

April 28, 2017 at 10:32 p.m.

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be "undergoing changes" to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several...

A stream flows through the toe of Kaskawulsh glacier in Canada

For the first time on record, human-caused climate change has rerouted an entire river

April 18, 2017 at 1:26 a.m.

A team of scientists Monday documented what they're describing as the first case of large-scale river reorganization as a result of human-caused climate change.

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