WHITE HOUSE — White House officials say President Donald Trump will sign executive orders Tuesday that would effectively dismantle Obama-era environmental regulations, rekindling the highly charged partisan debate about how human activity affects the earth’s climate, and deepening concern decades of work on global climate treaties may be unraveling. “Many agree that would be disastrous,” Dutch […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new environmental chief said Thursday that carbon dioxide emissions are not a chief contributor to global warming. “I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt said on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box.’ “But we don’t know that […]
SAN FRANCISCO — On rare winter mornings here, a skim of ice forms on sidewalk puddles. But water’s solid form is mostly an abstraction in this land of blooming flowers and the hummingbirds that visit them. Except for the week of the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Dozens of the 22,000 scientists gathering […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON— The Alaska Army National Guard’s 38th Troop Command welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony at Bryant Army Airfield on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, August 7. Col. Joseph Streff, commander of the Alaska Army National Guard, presided over the ceremony where Lt. Col. Wayne Don took command of the unit. […]