Climate Change

"Greenland And Iceland Saw Record Heat In May. What It Means For The World.

"Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday."

Source: AP, 06/12/2025

Phase-Out of FEMA On Course, Trump Says, Raising Worries About Disaster Aid

"The Trump administration will begin dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency later this year, the president announced on Tuesday, setting a tight timeframe for a breakup that many experts warned would likely harm the nation’s ability to respond to disasters."

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/12/2025

"Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas"

"Companies plan to build more than 100 new gas-fired power plants in Texas in the next few years amid a race to meet enormous electrical demand from energy-hungry industries, according to a report released Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit."

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/12/2025

EPA Says Power Plant Carbon Emissions Aren’t Dangerous. Scientists Disagree.

The Trump EPA on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution. The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation.

Source: AP, 06/12/2025

"Trump Says Governors Should Be Able To Handle Disasters Without FEMA"

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” states off Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance after this year’s hurricane season, offering in the most explicit terms yet his plans for states to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies on their own."

Source: Washington Post, 06/11/2025

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