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Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith
OpinionThe Guardian1mo ago

Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith

By repealing the EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the president is denying reality itself The climate crisis is killing people. These deaths are measurable, documented and ongoing. Concluding otherwise is just playing pretend. Studies explain the mechanics, but lived experience supplies the truth. The people who suffer the consequences see the fire rising and water closing in. They need their government’s help. Despite that, the president of the United States stood at a microphone last Thursday and abdicated his duty to them. “It has nothing to do with public health,” he claimed about the climate crisis while announcing that the federal government would repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding”, a determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. “This is all a scam, a giant scam.” Jamil Smith is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Ghana hosts IPCC meeting on people-centered climate adaptation
Environmentmyjoyonline8d ago

Ghana hosts IPCC meeting on people-centered climate adaptation

Ghana took centre stage in climate adaptation discussions when the Environmental Protection Agency and the United Nations University – Institute of Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) hosted an IPCC outreach meeting at the Alisa Hotel in Accra. The event brought together government officials, academics, climate experts, and international development partners to explore how climate change […]

Vilnius Air Quality Remains Good After Large Fire
Environmentdelfi-lt21d ago

Vilnius Air Quality Remains Good After Large Fire

Following a major fire in Vilnius on Thursday evening, residents have been reassured that air quality in the city remained good and dangerous pollutant levels were not exceeded, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

[Howard Davies] The global green financial divide is growing
EnvironmentKorea Herald23d ago

[Howard Davies] The global green financial divide is growing

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump’s administration drew a flurry of condemnations for its decision to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding”: a formal, evidence-based acknowledgement that greenhouse-gas emissions pose a threat to public health. Although the change may seem minor, it is anything but. Since 2009, the endangerment finding has underpinned much of the climate-related policymaking at the EPA and other agencies. For the financial world, the impl