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Think Bill Gates is fixing the climate crisis? Not if you follow the money. While he funds green innovation and talks about cutting emissions, Gates also invests in dirty industries such as coal, oil and private jets

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Its chief executive called the E.U. regulations one part of a “very misguided effort to kill oil.” His words followed comments by Trump administration officials criticizing Europe’s climate policies.

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In a remarkable United Nations address, the president lashed out at wind turbines, environmentalists and allies around the world while dismissing the dangers of climate change.

ANTI-CLIMAT POLITIQUE

On Wednesday in New York, countries lined up to say they would accelerate their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. In staying away, the U.S. was all but alone.

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The U.S. president promoted himself and criticized a wide variety of targets, including renewable energy.

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A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases.

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The mandatory program, which required 8,000 facilities to report their release, will be ended to reduce ‘bureaucratic red tape’

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The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.

ANTI-CLIMAT DROIT & LITIGE

Die Trump-Regierung will die rechtliche Basis für Klimaschutz in den USA kippen. Ein Regierungsbericht stellt die Wissenschaft infrage, Fachleute protestieren.

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Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said he would push Europe to loosen environmental rules and buy more gas. Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, tied fossil fuels to a need to win the A.I. race.

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Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”

ANTI-CLIMAT DROIT & LITIGE

The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage.

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Die Folgen der Erderwärmung können Angst machen. Unsere Psyche reagiert mit Abwehr. Wie das funktioniert – und wie Desinformations-Akteure das ausnutzen, um Klimaschutz-Maßnahmen mit Falschbehauptungen zu verzögern. Ein #Faktenfuchs.

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The project was already 80 percent complete and slated to provide enough energy to power more than 350,000 homes.

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The Trump administration is halting wind projects that had been approved, financed and underway — while providing little to no justification.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ POLITIQUE

The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas.

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The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.

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A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists.

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Frank Rambo joins me to discuss the multi-billion-dollar utility practice of running expensive coal plants and the Trump administration's efforts to prop them up.

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The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration from repealing the legal foundation for regulating climate pollution.

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Saudi Arabia, Iran and other oil states are campaigning to stop the adoption of the IMO's green shipping deal in October

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Federal agencies have recently issued a barrage of restrictions that could halt construction of solar and wind farms on public and private lands.

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The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

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Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

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Malgré des alertes lancées dès les années 1960, les Etats peinent toujours à prendre des mesures pour contrer les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Pas étonnant, quand on considère tout ce qui a été mis en œuvre par les lobbys des énergies fossiles pour décrédibiliser la science

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As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas giant raises an alarming conflict of interest

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

The Trump administration Tuesday announced plans to revoke the agency’s “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases, setting the stage for the federal government to cease regulating climate-warming emissions.

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According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.

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Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

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The Trump administration is approving coal mines under the guise of an "energy emergency," but it will do little to save a declining industry.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ SCIENCES

Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere.

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The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country.

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Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say

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The budget bill sabotages one of the biggest growth sectors of the US economy.

ANTI-CLIMAT DROIT & LITIGE

Experts say the most impactful decisions have enabled the Trump administration to gut the federal workforce and freeze funding.

ANTI-CLIMAT POLITIQUE

Critics are calling it "the most anti-environmental bill of all time."

ANTI-CLIMAT TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.

ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

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L'agroclimatologue Serge Zaka dénonce dans Forum la violence dont lui et ses collègues sont victimes de la part des climatosceptiques. Ceci alors même que la Suisse et l'ouest de l'Europe traversent une vague de chaleur particulièrement intense.

ANTI-CLIMAT POLITIQUE

Der US-Präsident macht die Standards für Klima- und Umweltschutz zunichte. Die Menschen in den USA leiden derweil unter Hitzerekorden, Hurrikans und Waldbränden.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

The fossil fuel industry and right-wing populists are increasingly key targeting policy-makers with climate misinformation, according to a new report

ANTI-CLIMAT DROIT & LITIGE

The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.

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False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

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Around the world, well-funded, organised climate deniers are spreading lies about the crisis. We call on governments and tech companies to step up, say London mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo

ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

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The so-called "One Big, Beautiful Bill" targets the tax credits designed to put the U.S. on the path to net-zero carbon emissions.

ANTI-CLIMAT POLITIQUE

A Senate tax package softens some blows imposed on renewables by a House version of the bill. But it still terminates many credits for clean power.

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Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the traditional Alutiiq community swap costly, polluting diesel for cheaper, clean power.

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Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

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The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb extra costs.

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The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet.

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House lawmakers just voted along party lines to dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Republicans have touted the House-passed legislation as one of the largest tax cuts in the nation’s history. They’ve failed to mention this increase targeting electric and hybrid vehicle owners.

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Mit ihrem neuen Steuergesetz attackieren die Republikaner die US-Energiewende. Dem "Inflation Reduction Act", Joe Bidens Erneuerbaren-Booster, droht die Abschaffung. Das würde auch große Teile der eigenen Klientel treffen.

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The agency plans to argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to climate change. Scientists disagree.

ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

Eine der ersten Amtshandlungen des wiedergewählten US-Präsidenten Donald Trump war der Austritt seines Landes aus dem Pariser Klimaschutzabkommen und dem Weltklimarat. Seither hat er weitere Massnahmen ergriffen, die zu einem Rückschritt im Klimaschutz und in der Klimaforschung führen – weltweit.

ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’

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Dozens of states, counties, cities, and tribes across the United States and its territories are currently suing major fossil fuel companies for fraud, climate damages, or racketeering.

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A new report draws on internal company documents and other public records to comprehensively outline the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to mislead the public and avoid paying for their products’ harms.

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The party’s signature tax plan would kill most Biden-era incentives, but there’s a sticking point: G.O.P. districts have the most to lose.

ANTI-CLIMAT DROIT & LITIGE

The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it.

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Far right accused of misinformation over turbines at Reinhardswald, which has left local people divided

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Naomi Oreskes hat in einem aufsehenerregenden Buch aufgezeigt, wie Erdölkonzerne seit den 1980er-Jahren mit viel Geld Zweifel an den Grunderkenntnissen der Klimawissenschaft säten. Nun macht die renommierte Wissenschaftshistorikerin der Harvard-Universität deutlich, dass es Massnahmen gegen den Klimawandel oft schwer haben, weil sie als staatliche Eingriffe in den freien Markt diffamiert werden.

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It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are growing more frequent as the planet warms.

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Trump wants to reverse years of climate progress. It won’t be easy. Many worry that the Trump administration will derail the clean energy transition. But there’s reason to believe otherwise.

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These days they call him Ian the renewable energy is expensive potato

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The former PM has form when it comes to pushing corporate interests and meeting populists halfway

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Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering

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Hilft der Mann im Weißen Haus ungewollt dem Klima? Wer so etwas erzählt, will sich nicht selbst die Mühe machen, Konzepte für ein Wirtschaften ohne zerstörerisches Wachstum zu entwickeln.

ANTI-CLIMAT JUSTICE CLIM.

Guyana’s rapid ascent to major oil producer has come at a steep price: rising inequality, weakened environmental regulations and unchecked gas flaring

ANTI-CLIMAT POLITIQUE

President Trump issued four executive orders on Tuesday exploiting the declaration that America is experiencing an “energy emergency”.

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President orders justice department to stop enforcement of critical policies holding fossil fuel companies accountable

ANTI-CLIMAT ACTIVISME

Everyone concerned about the health of the planet and of our democracies needs to stand with European green groups as we resist a concerted political campaign to defund us.

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He once talked about the need to fight climate change. Now, he embraces Elon Musk, lavishes praise on the president and strives to stand out in a MAGA world.

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What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.

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Trump’s EPA claims that climate change isn’t a danger to human beings

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But will Team Trump succeed in turning back time? Maybe Not!

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Le gouvernement de Donald Trump a annoncé mercredi une trentaine de mesures allant à rebours de la politique climatique de l’administration précédente. Sont notamment concernées les émissions des centrales à charbon et la protection des zones humides.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

Donald Trump’s administration to is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’ climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plant.

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Environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”

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ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster seas

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We’re reaching the point with the second Trump administration where, as Wall Street investors would say, the crazy is “priced in.” There’s absolutely no reason to expect anything other than aggressively dishonest and profoundly stupid governance.

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In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

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Wie millionenschwere Stiftungen und mächtige Lobbyisten versuchen, Trumps Agenda nach Europa zu bringen und die CDU für sich einzunehmen.

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“The Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens", Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told on Monday.

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EPA chief Lee Zeldin wants to demolish the bedrock of greenhouse gas regulation. It won’t be easy.

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He is surrounded by people who have grandiose plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project

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President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

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Der US-Präsident liefert anderen Ländern und Energiekonzernen die Ausrede, bei Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle zu bleiben. Der Wechsel zu den erneuerbaren Energien verzögert sich.

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Auch Umwelt-, Klima- und Verbraucherschutzverbände wehren sich gegen die Anfrage der Unionsfraktion zur Finanzierung von Nichtregierungsorganisationen. Scharfe Kritik am "besorgniserregenden" Demokratieverständnis kommt auch vom Umwelt-Dachverband DNR.

ANTI-CLIMAT SCIENCES

Diese Woche tagt im chinesischen Hangzhou das Plenum des Weltklimarats IPCC. Warum die Entscheidung über das Arbeitsprogramm bis 2028/29 auch die Rolle der Wissenschaft in der Klimapolitik bestimmt, lesen Sie bei Table.Briefings.

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Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent.

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The tech billionaire is invigorating groups in the U.S. and Europe aiming to sabotage climate action, a DeSmog media analysis shows.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

Woher die Freude an der ökologischen Zerstörung kommt und wie die Mitte der Gesellschaft das befeuert, zeigt eine neue Studie. Demnach hat es viel mit Angst zu tun.

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Kathleen Sgamma to oversee Bureau of Land Management, agency that manages quarter-billion acres of public land

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Website of ‘Doge’ includes information published by thinktank CEI, which claims to fight ‘climate alarmism’

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The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

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Elon Musk unterstützt Rechtspopulisten, die E‑Autos hassen. Welche Strategie verfolgt er damit für Tesla? Steht Tesla am Abgrund? Was können Teslafahrer:innen tun, um Musks Angriffe auf die Demokratie nicht weiter zu unterstützen?