‘Taylor has joined a small but growing cohort of Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians who are bucking Republican Party orthodoxy on climate — even as President Trump has moved briskly to roll back the Obama administration’s major climate initiatives.’

Source: Climate Converts: The Conservatives Who Are Switching Sides on Warming – Yale E360

‘Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee could help decide the fate of his moves to undo climate-related U.S. regulations, but legal experts said Neil Gorsuch’s judicial record makes it hard to predict whether as a justice he would back a sweeping rollback.’

Source: High court pick could help decide fate of Trump’s climate policy | Reuters

‘Coal’s use in U.S. power plants has been falling for years in the face of stiff competition from natural gas. Former President Barack Obama’s initiatives to rein in the impacts of climate change have hastened the retirement of old, inefficient coal-fired plants and the switch to cleaner-burning natural gas.’

Source: Trump climate change action won’t change coal’s fortunes: Shell chair

‘As President Trump rolls back Obama’s environmental legacy, it isn’t just green groups who say they’ll resist America’s reversal on clean electricity. Billion-dollar corporations told BuzzFeed News that because climate change is a significant concern for their business, they’ll keep on battling carbon pollution regardless of what the government says.’

Source: Big companies defy Trump on climate change

‘The White House took a major swipe at President Barack Obama’s climate change legacy on Tuesday with the signing of an executive order on energy independence.’

Source: White House Takes Aim at Obama Era Climate Policy in New Executive Order – NBC News

‘As East Africa struggles through a drought, scientists say climate change may be making the situation worse as a warming planet may be altering the weather patterns that bring rain to the region.’

Source: Experts Say Climate Change May Be Making African Drought Worse

‘The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency reiterated his staunch opposition to the landmark Paris climate deal on Sunday and promised to begin work to roll back a hallmark environmental initiative of the Obama administration.’

Source: EPA Chief: Paris Climate Accord ‘Just A Bad Deal’ | The Huffington Post

‘Once rich with coral and sea life, 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef today is composed of large swafts of bleached white or dead coral. Warm seas off the coast of Queensland, Australia, killed some two-thirds of a nearly 500-mile stretch of coral in 2016 after warm water caused the coral to expel living algae, triggering it to calcify or turn white, a process known as bleaching. Researchers have called it the worst die-off of coral ever recorded at the reef.’

Source: Climate Change Has Already Devastated the Great Barrier Reef

‘WASHINGTON — The contentious debate over climate change is entering a new phase, with skeptics in the Trump administration poised to roll back regulations governing everything from clean-water standards to fracking — convinced that doing so will boost the U.S. economy. But the Pentagon views the issue differently.’

Source: The White House doubts climate change. Here’s why the Pentagon does not

‘Financial officials from the world’s biggest economies have dropped from a joint statement any mention of financing action on climate change, reportedly following pressure from the US and Saudi Arabia.’

Source: US ‘forces G20 to drop any mention of climate change’ in joint statement | The Independent