This month, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era policy to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The Clean Power Plan is the...
Eleven years after the release of the Oscar-winning climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore returned with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. The follow-up...
President Nixon signing the National Environmental Policy Act (1969) – National Archives The way that climate change has been approached in President Trump’s administration might suggest...
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017 has so far been the second warmest year in the recorded history of the planet. That means this year will extend the record...
Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes recorded in recent history, is making its way toward the US just as we are starting to understand the enormity of the Hurricane Harvey...
In 2014, after Superstorm Sandy, we conducted a study of coastal Connecticut residents and found that many people lack basic awareness and understanding of hurricane risks. These...
Trump Can't Cancel the Paris Agreement, and Americans Want the U.S. to Stay Franz Hochstrasser, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies There has been much discussion of...
This blog post is written by Sophie Wenzlau, third year law student at UC Davis. On March 28, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to gut...
In the United States, extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard. Over seven thousand Americans succumbed to the impacts of extreme heat exposure between 1999 and 2009....