The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouseย gases.
Scientists said they will face major gaps in data that can be collected only from satellites about ice caps and sheets, surface levels of seas and lakes, sizes of glaciers, surface radiation, water vapor, snow cover and atmospheric carbonย dioxide.
Salmon wagons and boat trips for schoolkids distract from environmental damage, say campaigners.
Emails obtained by DeSmog show county officials continually met privately with Project Sail lobbyists, something denied to local residents opposing the $17 billion data center.
As Trump pushes to slash the EPAโs budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.
Utilities started reversing coal powerโs โirreversibleโ decline. Will it last?
