‘Wheeler and his predecessor Pruitt have sullied the bipartisan track record of one of the nation’s agencies entrusted with protecting public health and safety. So it is little wonder that three former EPA administrators who, notably, served under Republican presidents, recently sounded the alarm on Capitol Hill, urging legislators to step up their oversight of the agency and denouncing its attempts to hamstring science.’

Source: 10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year – Union of Concerned Scientists

‘The growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising global temperatures will come close to eclipsing the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if planet-heating emissions are not constrained, a major new study has found.’

Source: Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study | US news | The Guardian

‘…The documents show the multibillion-dollar gas industry has built crucial local coalitions and hired high-powered operatives to torpedo cities’ anti-gas policies – sometimes assisted by money those same cities have paid into gas trade associations.’

Source: Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action | Gas | The Guardian

‘Soaring temperatures, intensified flood risks and heightened water stress will threaten 57 U.S. nuclear plants over the next 20 years, forcing operators to take additional resiliency measures, according to a new report.’

Source: Mounting Climate Impacts Threaten U.S. Nuclear Reactors – Scientific American

‘Bucking tradition, a group of climate activists has won three seats in an election to an important governing body at Harvard University, the Board of Overseers, the university announced Friday.’

Source: Climate Activists Gain Seats on Harvard Oversight Board – The New York Times

‘A total of 28 trillion tonnes of ice have disappeared from the surface of the Earth since 1994. That is stunning conclusion of UK scientists who have analysed satellite surveys of the planet’s poles, mountains and glaciers to measure how much ice coverage lost because of global heating triggered by rising greenhouse gas emissions.’

Source: Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years | Climate change | The Guardian

‘Soaring temperatures, intensified flood risks and heightened water stress will threaten 57 U.S. nuclear plants over the next 20 years, forcing operators to take additional resiliency measures, according to a new report.’

Source: Mounting Climate Impacts Threaten U.S. Nuclear Reactors – Scientific American

‘Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden listed climate change among the major crises facing America as he seeks to rally Democrats heading toward the November election.’

Source: Biden calls climate change one of America’s four major crises | TheHill

‘Attribution science, at its most basic, calculates how likely an extreme weather event is in today’s climate-changed world and compares that with how likely a similar event would be in a world without anthropogenic warming. Any difference between those two probabilities can be attributed to climate change.’

Source: The First Undeniable Climate Change Deaths – Eos

‘Yet, when it comes to action we are still in a state of denial. The climate and ecological crisis has never once been treated as a crisis. The gap between what we need to do and what’s actually being done is widening by the minute. Effectively, we have lost another two crucial years to political inaction.’

Source: After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial | Climate change | The Guardian