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ANTI-KLIMA
La directrice de la COP30 accuse les USA de freiner d’autres pays
Les Etats-Unis «ont influé très négativement» sur les politiques climatiques d'autres pays, a déploré Ana Toni, directrice de la COP au Brésil.
URSACHEN
Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices
President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But the amounts would be small relative to global demand.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
URSACHEN
Druck auf EU: Die Europäer sollen Trumps Diesel-Problem lösen
Wegen der hohen Spritpreise fordert das Weisse Haus von Europa, Reserven auf den Markt zu werfen. Die Schweizer Diesel-Vorräte bleiben von Trumps Forderungen verschont.
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump administration to slash clean car rules aimed at cutting climate emissions
Environmentalists decry move that relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered cars
URSACHEN
* IRAN WAR * Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy
Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy security
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
To Starve a Whale: Letter from a Hot Planet
I've gotten tough or resilient or case-hardened to the ugly things I read up on daily as part of my writing and civic life. Some of them, the amoral destructiveness of the tech industry and the Trump Administration, often appear in impersonal terms, as statistics and economics posing …
POLITIK
* UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY * Competing Climate Visions Clash at UNGA
While President Donald Trump pushed against cutting emissions and regulating technology, environmentalists called for world leaders to reject conflict and build a stable future with clean energy.
TECH. & ENERGIE
Trump is backing a diesel export ban. How much would that do?
The U.S. ships millions of barrels of diesel fuel overseas each day, even as Americans face unprecedented prices at home.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * How Trump’s repeal of the GHG rule could double new emissions from Georgia
The state’s largest utility was already expanding power plants to serve data centers.
ANTI-KLIMA RECHT
* USA * Und sie erwärmt sich doch
In den USA ist ein wissenschaftlicher Leitfaden zum Klimawandel für Richter nach politischem Druck aus einem Standardwerk gestrichen worden. Hintergrund sind offenbar Klagen gegen Öl- und Gaskonzerne.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * House Votes to Block California’s Air Pollution Rules for Ships
The move continues Republican efforts to undercut the state’s climate rules, but it’s unclear whether the Senate will follow suit.
URSACHEN
US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to fight climate crisis
Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulating ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters
KULTUR & BILDUNG
* TRUMP * Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money
The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries, Moira Donegan writes
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
As the US Carbon Dioxide Removal Market Retreats, Other Governments Step Up
In less than a decade, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has grown from an idea to an emerging industry that is widely accepted as a critical complement to deep emissions cuts in the efforts to curb climate change.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump Doubles Down on Climate Denial With Plan to Repeal Power Plant Rules
The EPA revoked limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, rejecting decades of settled science to argue that they do not contribute to dangerous air pollution.
ANTI-KLIMA KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
* USA * How the End of USAID Eroded Global Environmental Goals
An analysis finds the cancellation of $1 billion in annual funding weakened protections around the world and undermined U.S. interests.
RECHT
* USA * Congressional Republicans Aim to Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits
The House Judiciary Committee will consider the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act as the Trump administration moves to roll back federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump topples the last pillar of Biden’s climate agenda
With the repeal of a rule that limited carbon emissions from power plants, the president is further delaying the phaseout of coal.
URSACHEN
* USA * Trump’s AI obsession will add immeasurably to extreme heat
Whatever else AI may do, its data centers will consume vast amounts of energy and keep driving fossil-fuel emissions for years to come, lending us humans a distinct helping hand in overheating this planet
TECH. & ENERGIE
* USA * Offshore Wind Will Struggle Long After Trump’s Attacks
Even under a new president, analysts and insiders don’t see a path for a U.S. offshore wind revival without fundamental reforms.
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Trump administration pulls support for annual Arctic environmental report
The move by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest government rollback of climate science activity.
ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK
Trump Lashes Out at National Academies of Sciences Over Climate Guide For Judges – Inside Climate News
Trump claimed without evidence that the manual was “fraudulent, biased, and misleading.”
WISSENSCHAFTEN
* UNDER TRUMP * The plan to make climate science harder to erase
As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere.
TECH. & ENERGIE
Trumps fossiler Kurs stoppt Energiewende nicht
Der US-Präsident attackiert Wind- und Solarenergie, doch der Ökostrom-Ausbau geht weiter. Allerdings: Für den Klimaschutz reicht das nicht. Denn ohne politische Strategie bleibt der Umbau Stückwerk.
POLITIK
* G-7 & BONNER GESPRÄCHE * Der Boss ist nackt
Um Krieg und Energiekrise ging es beim G7-Gipfel in Évian, ums Klima bei der UN-Vorkonferenz in Bonn. Beide Treffen blieben unter ihren Möglichkeiten. Dabei liegt die Lösung auf der Hand, es fehlt nur das Selbstbewusstsein der Regierungen, damit der Trumpismus ausgedient hat.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Outrage rescued an important ocean research program. Crucial ones remain at risk
Senators saved the Ocean Observatories Initiative from "supreme stupidity." But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.
URSACHEN
* VENEZUELA * What happens to the planet if Trump gets his hands on all of Venezuela’s oil?
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves of any country on Earth. But the type of oil it has is difficult, and dirty, to process. Experts say ramping up production would be expensive, and dangerous for the climate and environment.
URSACHEN
* USA * Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands
A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.
TECH. & ENERGIE
* IRAN WAR * Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy
His humiliating defeat in Iran has sealed the deal – column by Paul Krugman
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
The reversal comes after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to block the removal of deep-sea monitoring instruments.
WISSENSCHAFTEN
US lawmakers fight Trump cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, joins Democrats in bid to stop dismantling of Ocean Observatories Initiative
MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG
US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive
Two-thirds of Americans say they are worried about climate but level of media coverage does not reflect this
WISSENSCHAFTEN
USA bauen weltweit führende Tiefsee-Messstationen ab – Forscher warnen
Die USA demontieren Messstationen, die Forschenden weltweit Daten liefern. Gleichzeitig pumpt die Trump-Regierung 700 Millionen Dollar in die Kohleindustrie.
URSACHEN
* USA * Arctic Refuge Oil Draws Few Bids, Despite Trump’s Push for ‘Liquid Gold’
An auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with just 10 percent of the available land claimed for oil development.
POLITIK
* USA * California and New York weaken climate rules as red states ramp up green energy
Republican-led states growing renewable capabilities at faster rate as Texas emerges as clean-energy leader
RECHT
* USA * The rightwing campaign to control how US judges view the climate crisis
US energy secretary Chris Wright featured in seminars to judges when he was a fracking executive
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees
While the US is shutting the doors to most refugees, those already in the country fear for their future in a rapidly heating world
AUSWIRKUNGEN
* EL NIÑO | USA * Trump’s cuts at sea could make the coming super El Niño harder to predict
The world’s “eyes and ears of the ocean” monitor storms, climate, and biodiversity. Now they’re being “descoped.”
URSACHEN
* USA * Trump Offers Funds for First New U.S. Coal Plants in 13 Years
The president announced a total of $700 million in federal money to reinvigorate the domestic coal industry, which has been in decline for decades.
RECHT
* USA * Seven US states sue Trump administration over deal to kill windfarm project
State attorneys general argue $1bn deal to terminate major offshore wind lease off the coast of New York is unlawful
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system
Ocean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cuts
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Trump aid cuts could close database storing ‘world’s memory of disasters’
The world’s most comprehensive disaster database is at risk of closing as a result of cuts to US foreign aid by the Trump administration
RECHT
* USA * Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump
The lead attorney for the 22 plaintiffs said the court has “slammed the courthouse doors on children fighting for their lives.”
WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Trump streicht wichtiges Forschungsprojekt zur Erwärmung der Ozeane
Die US-Regierung hat beschlossen, ein Beobachtungsnetz für den Atlantik zu demontieren, das seit einem Jahrzehnt wichtige Klimadaten liefert. Forschende warnen vor dem Verlust essenzieller Messreihen.
ANTI-KLIMA
* TRUMP * Scilencing
The Trump Administration would just as soon we didn't know stuff, especially about our planet
WISSENSCHAFTEN
Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Breaking Up Climate Research Center
A judge has temporarily blocked the National Science Foundation from dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, a globally significant weather and climate research center based in Boulder, Colorado.
WISSENSCHAFTEN
* DEBATTE ÜBER RCP8.5 * Neue Szenarien: Keine Entwarnung bezüglich Klimaerwärmung
Das schlimmste und das bestmögliche Szenario sind vom Tisch. Was das heisst, erklärt SRF-Redaktor Klaus Ammann.
BEWEGUNG RECHT
Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry
Young Americans are suing the president for violating rights with executive orders that fuel the climate crisis
ANTI-KLIMA
* CANADA * Once a climate leader and now doubling down on oil
Mark Carney is counting on Alberta’s oil sands to help him survive Trump’s trade agenda.
ANTI-KLIMA
* RCP8.5 DEBATE * Fact-checking Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario
Among a flurry of posts on social media last weekend, US president Donald Trump declared “good riddance” to a specific emissions scenario used in global climate projections.
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* RCP8.5 DEBATE * Scientists Tweaked the Global Warming Outlook. So Trump Weighed In
Largely because of the growth in renewable energy, a committee of climate experts from around the world has revised down its projection of a possible worst-case scenario for global warming. President Trump said, falsely, it shows that climate scientists were wrong all along. (PS: Auch Schweizer Klimaleugner wie Philipp Gut in der Weltwoche rufen: «Der Weltuntergang ist abgesagt!»)
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump’s Push to Keep Coal Plants Open Is Costing Hundreds of Millions
Costs have been mounting in the year since the Trump administration began directing aging coal plants to stay open.
ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK
Trump is trying to kill a carbon tax on global shipping. He may not succeed.
The U.S. has threatened countries supporting the tax with visa restrictions, tariffs, and port fees. A slim majority of nations still back it.
AUSWIRKUNGEN
US policy, gangs and climate change are reshaping Central America
Migration and democratic decline in Central America cannot be understood separately from the intertwined impacts of US intervention, gang violence, economic instability and climate disruption. As droughts, displacement and insecurity deepen, the region faces growing pressure toward both migration and authoritarian rule.
POLITIK
* G-7 * La lutte contre le changement climatique, victime plus que jamais d’un déni de réalité
CHRONIQUE. Réunis la semaine dernière à Paris, les membres du G7 ont sciemment occulté un sujet brûlant au menu de leurs discussions. Par couardise face à l’administration de Trump? Pas seulement. Une poétesse iranienne disparue trop tôt nous éclaire
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms
In exchange, the companies will invest in oil and gas projects, echoing an earlier deal with the French energy giant TotalEnergies.
RECHT
* USA * Court Rejects Trump Administration Climate Lawsuit Against Hawaii
In a setback for federal efforts to thwart climate litigation, the judge ruled that the suit, which tried to block the state from suing oil companies, was too speculative.
POLITIK
* USA * Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects
The injunction pauses policy giving senior Trump official direct sign-off on federal clean energy projects
TECH. & ENERGIE
* USA * Growth of Renewable Energy in the US
Data shows that 90% of new energy capacity added in the U.S. last year came from clean sources, but fossil fuels are also growing.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump signs memos to boost US fossil-fuel production for ‘defense readiness’
President claims ‘inadequate’ supply presents security threat and orders expansion of oil, coal and gas production
ANTI-KLIMA
Bessent Questions the Cause of Climate Change and Its Economic Toll
The Treasury secretary said it is “difficult to deconstruct” the reasons for global warming, which he described as a belief of the “elite.”
ANTI-KLIMA
* IMF | WORLD BANK | TRUMP * Don’t mention the climate: ‘beyond absurd’ situation at global finance talks
Developing countries face possible shelving of crucial green action plan at IMF and World Bank spring meetings
RECHT
* USA * Youths Who Sued Trump Over Orders to ‘Unleash’ Energy Try to Revive Case
Appealing the dismissal of their suit, they argued that executive orders to promote fossil fuels endangered their futures and violated their constitutional rights.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * In a Boost to Coal, E.P.A. Moves to End Biden’s Toxic Ash Disposal Rules
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the changes would help U.S. “energy dominance.” Environmentalists said they threaten drinking water.
URSACHEN
* IRAN WAR * Oil CEOs Raked in Money From Trump’s Iran War
Energy executives sold stock worth $1.4 billion in the first quarter on the back of a historic shock to the world’s crude supplies.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * How Lee Zeldin Shifted the Mission and the Message of the E.P.A.
More than any administrator in decades, Lee Zeldin talks about the Environmental Protection Agency's work in economic terms, reflecting President Trump’s desire to boost industry while downplaying environmental consequences.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event
Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the Unabomber
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
* IRAN WAR * ‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep
Experts say the US believes it is entitled to resources it desires – a perspective president has supported for decades
MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG WISSENSCHAFTEN
To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. Grist tracked the changes.
URSACHEN
* USA * ‘God Squad’ Waives Environmental Rules for Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
The panel voted to override Endangered Species Act restrictions on oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, home to critically endangered whales and other imperiled wildlife.
TECH. & ENERGIE WIRTSCHAFT
How Clean Energy Firms Are Trying to Survive the Trump Era
Offshore wind is out. Geothermal power is in. And many climate technology start-ups are looking for ways to carry on without federal backing.
TECH. & ENERGIE
* IRAN WAR * White House’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Wartime Mandate Meets Volatile Market Reality
At CERAWeek, Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges a patriotic surge in oil production, but industry titans warn that the U.S.-Iran war has fractured the global energy map beyond the reach of a quick fix.
RECHT
* USA * 24 States Sue the E.P.A. for Renouncing Its Power to Fight Climate Change
The suit accuses the agency of illegally repealing the endangerment finding, the scientific assessment that required it to regulate greenhouse gases.
ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Administration Targeted Climate Lab in Effort to Free Trump Ally, Lawsuit Claims
The complaint says efforts to dismantle an atmospheric research center are part of a broader political campaign that endangers climate and weather studies.
EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
* IRAN WAR * Leave Tyrants in the Ground
By unhooking ourselves from fossil fuels, we release ourselves from a world of harm.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms
In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.
WISSENSCHAFTEN
IPCC: Wie sich die Berichte und die Kommunikation verändern werden
Der IPCC steht vor einer schwierigen Plenarsitzung. Es geht um den Zeitplan zum nächsten Bericht, Geopolitik und die US-Angriffe gegen die Wissenschaft. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz erklärt, wo und warum die IPCC-Berichte in Zukunft anders aussehen werden.
URSACHEN
Trump Administration Approves Ultra-Deepwater Oil Drilling Plan
The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to help produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.
POLITIK
* IRAN WAR * Everything is a political weapon since Trump’s re-election, says Germany’s ex-economy minister
Robert Habeck says world has moved on from weaponising energy to using tariffs, technology and more to inflict harm
TECH. & ENERGIE
* IRANKRIEG * USA schaden sich mit Fokus auf Öl selbst
Die USA haben unter Präsident Donald Trump auf eine Renaissance der fossilen Energie gesetzt. China dagegen setzt auf Erneuerbare. Es ist auf Ölschocks vorbereitet. Amerika nicht.
URSACHEN
* IRANKRIEG * Christof Rühl: USA erlauben Kauf von russischem Öl
Die US-Regierung reagiert auf den wegen des Iran-Kriegs stark gestiegenen Ölpreis: Länder dürfen vorübergehend russisches Öl kaufen, das bereits auf Tankern unterwegs ist. Was sind die Folgen? Einschätzungen von Energieexperte Christof Rühl von der Columbia University in New York.
RECHT
* USA * How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give states new tools in climate suits
Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump’s DoJ
ANTI-KLIMA
* NAVIGATION EMISSIONS * Gunboat climate diplomacy ratchets up a notch
Trump administration seeks to torpedo carbon price on shipping, once and for all
WISSENSCHAFTEN
* USA * Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.
WIRTSCHAFT
* IRAN WAR * Trump Bets That ‘Energy Dominance’ Will Make War Less Costly
So far, the energy price shocks have been relatively contained. But a prolonged conflict in the Middle East carries enormous economic risks.
TECH. & ENERGIE
* IRAN WAR * Iran & The Energy Transition
Michael & Bryony offer their thoughts on the conflict in Iran.
TECH. & ENERGIE
* IRAN WAR * The Oil Price Shock Is Here. Its Arrival Provides a Familiar Warning.
With gasoline and oil prices rising, U.S. consumers already are already feeling the effects of the Iran conflict and the consequences of a slow transition to cleaner alternatives.
URSACHEN
* USA * Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers
No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet, the Interior Department said Wednesday.
ANTI-KLIMA
* USA * Washington macht dicke Luft mit Kohle-Politik
Die Trump-Regierung erhöht die Gesundheitsgefahren durch Kohlekraftwerke, indem sie Grenzwerte für Quecksilber und Feinstaub wieder abschwächt. Ob sich der Niedergang der Kohle damit aufhalten lässt, bleibt fraglich.
ANTI-KLIMA RECHT
* USA * Scientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on Reference Manual for Judges
More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center.
URSACHEN
* USA * ‘Bullying’ could scupper carbon levy on shipping, warn experts
Panama joins smaller nations in dropping support for policy aimed at cutting maritime emissions
RECHT
* USA * Judge Rejects Trump Administration’s Plan to End NYC Congestion Pricing
A federal court ruled that the Trump administration’s efforts to end the program are unlawful. The federal government is reviewing its legal options, including an appeal.
AUSWIRKUNGEN
The Colorado River is nearing collapse. It’s Trump’s problem now
The Interior Department must force seven bickering states to agree on drastic water cuts — after the driest winter in decades.
URSACHEN
* IRAN WAR * War profits, quantified
As Middle East regional war upends global gas markets, US LNG exporters stand to pocket a multi-billion-dollar windfall
URSACHEN
* IRAN WAR * Trump Bets That ‘Energy Dominance’ Will Make War Less Costly
So far, the energy price shocks have been relatively contained. But a prolonged conflict in the Middle East carries enormous economic risks.