Andrew Revkin

Trump’s Defense Secretary Cites Climate Change As National Security Challenge

James Mattis’ unpublished testimony before a Senate panel recognizes a threat others in the administration reject or minimize.

Andrew Revkin
By Andrew Revkin
Donald Trump, left, listens as Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon's assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves. In unpublished written testimony provided to the Senate

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Trump’s Team Continues To Dismantle The EPA

The mood is dark as Trump takes over the environmental agency he pledged to reduce to “little tidbits.”

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By Andrew Revkin
In this Jan. 4, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator-designate Scott Pruitt answer a reporter's question during his meeting with Sen. Shelley Moore Capitol, R-W.Va., on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Cliff Owen)

(REPORT) --- President Donald Trump long ago announced his provocative intentions for the Environmental Protection Agency, pledging during the campaign to get rid of the agency "in almost every form," with only "little tidbits left." So far, Trump's remodeling efforts have been both dramatic (nominating Oklahoma attorney general and fossil-fuel

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What Trump EPA Contract Freeze Means For The Environment

The move could disrupt core operations ranging from toxic cleanups to water quality testing, according to records and interviews.

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By Jesse Eisinger
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials and visitors walk past a steaming mound of decontaminated soil during a tour of the Industrial Latex Superfund site in Wallington, N.J., Friday, Feb. 12, 1999. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency's budget allocations and even threaten to disrupt core operations ranging from toxic cleanups to water quality testing, according to records and interviews. In one email

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Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept The ‘Social Cost of Carbon’?

The nation’s top science panel has just sketched a clearer way to set a fair price today for cutting tomorrow’s climate risks. Some of Trump’s advisers say the price should be zero.

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By Andrew Revkin
Boaters pass through a channel as the sun set behind wind mills and an oil refinery, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

(ANALYSIS) --- President-elect Donald Trump and members of his proposed cabinet and transition team have taken aim at many of President Obama's climate and clean-energy policies, programs and legacies 2014 from the Paris Agreement to the Clean Power Plan. But there's probably no more consequential and contentious a target for the incoming

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Endangered Species Under GOP? The Online Language Of Climate Change

A recent reworking of language concerning climate change on a Wisconsin government website could be replicated under a Trump administration.

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By Andrew Revkin
Endangered Species Under GOP? Climate Change Information on the Web

(ANALYSIS) --- James Rowen, a longtime Wisconsin journalist and environmental blogger, recently discovered a stark remaking of a state Department of Natural Resources web page on climate change and the Great Lakes. Until December, the page, dating from the Democratic administration of former Gov. James Doyle, had this headline 2014 "Climate

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Trump And The Climate: His Hot Air On Warming Is Far From the Greatest Threat

Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has frightened many with his embrace of fossil fuels. What’s truly scary, scientists and others say, is how much larger the problem is than one American president.

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By Andrew Revkin
President-elect Donald Trump waves to supporters during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

(ANALYSIS) --- President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House. "This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop," Trump tweeted a year ago. In recent weeks, Trump doubled

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