Guardian - Donald Trump and his advisers have made campaign promises to toss crucial environmental regulations and boost the planet-heating fossil fuel sector. Those plans include systemically dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal body with the most power to take on the climate emergency and environmental justice, an array of Trump advisers and allies said. It’s a potential future that “horrifies” experts. “I think it would be devastating,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. During his first White House stint, Trump successfully proposed cutting the EPA budget. Hundreds of scientists and other experts fled the agency as the administration dismissed scientific findings and weakened environmental regulations.The attacks on the agency could become even harsher during a second Trump term, experts and insiders say.
NPR - A climate scientist, compared to a pedophile and accused of fraud by climate deniers, brought the heat to them in a defamation lawsuit last year. The two men must now pay Michael Mann more than $1m after a jury found in his favor.
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