Climate Change

"Greenland’s unusually mild summer in 2019 caused the world’s largest island to lose 600 billion tons of ice in just two months, rivaling the summer of 2012 for the most ice mass lost in a single melt season, according to NASA data released Wednesday."

"Mysterious emissions have been slowing the atmosphere’s healing. Scientists think they’ve finally discovered the source."

"Democrats on both sides of Capitol Hill are pushing to add climate change provisions to the third aid package for people and industries affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. But it's unclear whether they have the political leverage to make those ideas stick — at least not yet."

"The oil industry could be facing the worst supply glut in history and start running out of storage space for excess oil because of the coronavirus pandemic, analysts warned yesterday."

"A new analysis from a coalition of environmental groups has found that four U.S. banks are the world’s largest fossil fuel financers."

"Exxon Mobil Corp. suffered a setback in a climate change case when a federal judge ruled that a consumer protection lawsuit filed by Massachusetts should go back to state court."

"A growing number of Democrats are voicing concern that the White House may pursue broad relief for the oil and gas industry amid sinking prices and the coronavirus pandemic."

"A number of Senate Democrats say any airline bailout package must include measures that limit carbon emissions from the industry."

"Exactly one year ago the nerve center of the U.S. nuclear deterrent was underwater.