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B’bye, Mr. Pruitt.
Grab a pick-ax and go down in a hole a mine us coal. Or just shut the hell up.

#PruittOut

Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen say Pruitt should leave the agency amid growing controversy over his spending and ties to lobbyists.
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If Pruitt wants to be a fossil energy lobbyist, let him. But not as head of the EPA.
Out with the rest of them. #PruittOut

The E.P.A. chief was using an apartment partly owned by the wife of the chairman of the lobbying firm as its client sought the agency’s sign off on a pipeline project.
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“The result will be more gas-guzzling vehicles on the road, greater total gasoline consumption, and a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions.”

A lose, lose, lose proposition from Pruitt.

The Trump administration, handing automakers a victory, is preparing to announce an effort to weaken strict Obama-era pollution standards.
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Not even a full paragraph in, and we’ve already arrived at “captive of the global warming religion”.

It's a presumptive and somewhat tired phrase. A wink and a nod; a dog whistle; offering no evidence or real argument before making clear their conclusion.

Yes, they offer both after we know where they're headed with it.

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And look at all that snow...

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may have a boring name, but it has a very important job: It measures U.S. temperatures. Unfortunately, its data are fraudulent.
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Zinke keeps trying, and losing.
Failing to account for the climate consequences of four huge coal leases last year because they were "economically irrational." Another attempt to push through huge tracts of land in the in the Powder River Basin for coal is once again halted in federal court

The plan covers 15 million acres in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. The ruling is the latest to cite the risks of fossil fuels and global warming.
insideclimatenews.org

“The extinction of the northern white rhino is happening before our eyes.”

On March 19, 2018 the last male northern white rhino died. Sudan, 45 years old, had been under armed guard to protect him from the threat of poachers. His death is heartbreaking. The extinction of the northern white rhino is happening before our eyes.
worldwildlife.org

Scott Pruitt’s Dirty Politics
“His schedule is dominated by meetings and speaking engagements with representatives of the industries he regulates. He has met only a handful of times with environmental groups.” #StopPruitt

How the Environmental Protection Agency became the fossil-fuel industry’s best friend.
newyorker.com

When human activity alters ocean health, oceans alter the planet.

Claiming that the science is “unsettled” is a dubious argument at best.

How much risk to ourselves and the planet are we willing to take?

Ocean acidification is already eating away coral skeletons. But it could also have a much wider planetary impact.
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Climate change goes to federal court -

From the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law:
“This will be the closest that we have seen to a trial on climate science in the United States, to date.”

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- Even when the writing is on the wall, we give up the way things are with a cold, dying grip. I've got an iPad, I'll be ok...

The gun debate is new to this party.

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A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered parties in a global warming lawsuit to prep him with a unprecedented court “tutorial” on climate change science.
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Environmentally sound public policy doesn’t cause economic collapse. Market failure causes environmental collapse.

Quote shared via Kindle: "The three most important sources of environmental problems are 1) market failure, 2) the tragedy of the commons, and 3) the underprovisioning of public goods."
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Transparency disappears when commercial fishing ships go “dark” and why that’s not good, for people and fish.

In a report, Oceana highlights instances where commercial fishing ships turned off their public tracking systems.
circa.com

Regional analysis of utility-scale battery storage

Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
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Politicians may scoff at the economic risk from climate change. The insurance industry is on the front lines of such risks, to the tune of $306 billion dollars. As Mr. Trump might say, it's a bad deal. Yet his administration makes it worse. http://bit.ly/2FqLcUR @TriplePundit

Taxpayers, governments and insurance companies own lots of climate risk. They can stress test their assets to bring risk costs down.
triplepundit.com

“It’s just crazy, crazy stuff,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, who has been studying the Arctic since 1982. “These heat waves – I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Sea ice has hit record lows for time of year as experts say global warming probably fueled big storms in Europe and north-eastern US
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The Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust adds Roger Burleigh to their team, augmenting the Trust's new Fish Hub program. The mission of bringing locally landed, sustainable seafood to Local communities continues to gain traction and positive impact.

Roger, who starts on March 19th, will be responsible for rebuilding local and regional markets for local seafood as part of our new Fish Hub program, which seeks to aggregate demand, coordinate logistics, and promote sustainable, Monterey Bay landed seafood.
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Sayonara snowpack.

Snowpacks in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and California and are expected be much smaller by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to federal projections released Friday.The Fourth National Climate Assessment, completed once every four years, asserts that the mild winter o
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