"Amid Fears Of Trump Cutback, NASA Announces Long-Term Climate Mission"
"Could this be push-back from an agency anticipating cuts? Could the Trump administration dismantle GeoCARB?"
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 12/09/2016
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Trump's EPA Pick May Struggle To Dismantle Obama's Environmental Legacy
"Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has fought President Barack Obama’s measures to curb climate change at every turn as attorney general of Oklahoma. Now he is hoping to take apart Obama's environmental legacy from the inside out, a task that could prove tougher than it sounds."
Source: Reuters, 12/09/2016
Clean Energy ‘Moving Forward’ Despite Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Experts Say
"President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice of a fossil-fuel advocate and climate-change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency comes at a moment when the American energy market has already shifted away from the most polluting fossil fuels, driven more by investors and economics than by federal regulations."
Source: NY Times, 12/09/2016
"House OKs Water, Spending Bills, But Senate Path Unclear"
"The House [Thursday] afternoon passed water projects legislation and a continuing resolution to keep the government funded into next year, but the Senate path is unclear."
Source: E&E News PM, 12/09/2016
"Trump To Pick Oil Ally Pruitt To Head EPA"
"President-elect Donald Trump is planning to pick Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the EPA, putting one of the agency's most hostile critics and a skeptic of climate change science at its helm, sources close to the transition said Wednesday."
Source: Politico, 12/08/2016
"Google Will Achieve 100 Percent Renewable Energy in 2017"
"A lot of leading companies have committed to getting all of their energy from renewable sources. Google has dispensed with its aspirational phase and will actually achieve this milestone in 2017, the company revealed Tuesday."
Source: Greentech Media, 12/07/2016
"Polar Sea Ice The Size Of India Vanishes In Record Heat"
"Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say."
Source: Reuters, 12/06/2016
"EPA Chief Voices Cautious Hope As Trump Inauguration Nears"
"Outgoing EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy sounded a note of hope Monday in response to concerns that US environmental policy could face upheaval as control shifts from a Democratic to Republican presidency."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 12/06/2016
"Al Gore Calls His Meeting With Trump 'Extremely Interesting'"
"Former Vice President Al Gore said Monday he had a 'productive' meeting with Donald Trump, calling it 'an extremely interesting conversation.'"
Source: AP, 12/06/2016
"Trump Advisors Aim To Privatize Oil-Rich Indian Reservations"
"Native American reservations cover just 2 percent of the United States, but they may contain about a fifth of the nation’s oil and gas, along with vast coal reserves. Now, a group of advisors to President-elect Donald Trump on Native American issues wants to free those resources from what they call a suffocating federal bureaucracy that holds title to 56 million acres of tribal lands, two chairmen of the coalition told Reuters in exclusive interviews."
Source: Reuters, 12/06/2016
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