December 15, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Dec. 15, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. In order to fully enjoy the Christmas and New Year festivities, I’m taking a break for a couple of weeks. The next Weekly Roundup will cover the week […]
December 8, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Dec. 8, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics The EPA will not block its scientists from freely discussing their work in public, Administrator Scott Pruitt promised lawmakers this week, in the wake of a […]
December 1, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Dec. 1, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics President Trump’s nominee to head NOAA, Barry Meyers, former CEO of AccuWeather, affirmed during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday that he accepts the scientific consensus that […]
November 17, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Nov. 17, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Because of the Thanksgiving holiday next week, the next Weekly Roundup will come out on December 1. Policy and Politics The Trump administration used its only public forum at […]
November 10, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Nov. 10, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics During Senate hearings on Wednesday, Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump’s nominee to head the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, when asked about the link between […]
November 3, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Nov. 3, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics The 600-plus-page Climate Science Special Report, which is Volume 1 of the fourth National Climate Assessment, has been released by the White House. It concludes that it […]
October 27, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Oct. 27, 2017 follows. Please forward the Roundup to anyone you think might be interested. For an archive of prior posts visit the CAAV website. It also contains news of events in the Central Shenandoah Valley as well as activities in which CAAV is […]
October 20, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Oct. 20, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics California recently enacted the Buy Clean California Act, which will serve as a first attempt to address the question of how best to handle the […]
October 13, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Oct. 13, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed the notice starting the process of scrapping the Clean Power Plan, arguing that it exceeds the agency’s authority under […]
October 6, 2017
The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending Oct. 6, 2017 follows. Please forward the URL to anyone you think might be interested. Policy and Politics On Thursday, President Donald Trump named Andrew Wheeler, a coal industry lobbyist and former congressional staffer, as his pick for deputy administrator of the EPA. Reuters reported […]
