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A Key Climate Justice Question at COP25: What Role Should Carbon Markets Play in Meeting Paris Goals?
Carbon markets have long been seen as part of the climate solution, believed to give polluters more flexibility to meet carbon reduction goals while lowering the cost of transition. But under those systems, poor communities bear the brunt of pollution, environmental justice and indigenous groups argue.
(InsideClimate News)
Supercomputers, Climate Models and 40 Years of the World Climate Research Programme
This weekend, the World Climate Research Programme celebrates its 40th anniversary and four decades of connecting researchers across the globe for projects targeting the most pressing climate science challenges. At the same time, AGU is celebrating its 100th year. The meetings take place at a critical juncture in the history of climate science and climate computer modeling.
(InsideClimate News)
States Are Cutting Environmental Spending at the Worst Time, Report Finds
States eliminated more than 4,400 positions at agencies responsible for protecting the environment over the past decade, a new report from Environmental Integrity Project shows. Illinois led the list. In Pennsylvania, the cuts came during an energy boom with the rise of fracking in the Marcellus Shale.
(Tribune News Service)
Rate of New Endangered Species Listings Declines Under Trump
The rate of listing new endangered and threatened species has slowed under the Trump administration. Read more from ICN on how Trump made it harder to take climate into account when listing species under the ESA.
(The Hill)
Watchdog: EPA Rushed Rulemaking on Polluting Glider Trucks
The Trump administration rushed to exempt a type of super-polluting cargo truck from clean air rules without conducting a federally mandated study on how it would impact public health, the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general said Thursday.
(Associated Press)
California Bans Insurers from Dropping Policies Made Riskier by Climate Change
California's wildfires have grown so costly and damaging that insurance companies—a homeowner's last hope when disaster strikes—have increasingly been canceling people's policies in fire-prone parts of the state, The New York Times reports.
(The New York Times)
Can a Coal Town Reinvent Itself?
A coal town in southwestern Virginia has been trying for years to reinvent itself for the future while fighting off flooding. Hope is running thin.
(The New York Times)
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