A Washington D.C. council member apologized Sunday evening after he blamed a snow squall on a well-known Jewish banking dynasty. In an Instagram post, Democrat Trayon White apologized to “the Jewish Community and anyone I have offended.” White made the comments on a Facebook video which was shot Friday morning through the windshield of a […]

A California federal court will soon hear oral arguments from San Francisco and Oakland that assert five major oil companies should pay huge sums of money for contributing to man-made global warming. A ruling against oil companies could not only have tremendous consequences for the U.S. legal system but could also mean a sizable payday for […]

The New York Times ran an editorial Saturday about the effect climate change had on discovering the Northwest Passage that appears to contradict claims the Arctic ice is melting at cataclysmic rates. Global warming would have helped famed fur trader Alexander Mackenzie discover a Northwest Passage connecting North America to China, according to a NYT […]

Dutch science writer Marcel Crok is a prominent advocate of the idea that climate change is not so bad. He is now finding a political hearing in Holland. No, to be invited to address the party congress of a new political party was the last thing, Marcel Crok, climate journalist and long standing and vocal critic […]

Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups shows how collusion is done. Last week, a congressional committee released a jarring and persuasive report on Russian meddling in American politics. Despite a media feeding frenzy over anything tangentially connected to questions of Russian interference, this report went largely unnoticed. The U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s “Russia’s Social […]

Germany’s new coalition deal was a “bitter disappointment” for those looking for a modern climate and energy policy, said outgoing energy secretary Rainer Baake Germany’s energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of the country’s flagship Energiewende policy. Baake made his stand as Germany’s democratic limbo was finally resolved, 162 days after the 2017 […]

A California district court ruled Wednesday that two lawsuits to hold energy companies responsible for weather affected by climate change are more appropriate for federal court. Judge William Alsup sent lawsuits from San Fransisco and Oakland into federal court, stating that the issue at hand was outside the state’s prevue. The move, sought by defendant […]

California officials who made dire climate change predictions about their localities’ futures in litigation against energy companies, but not in bond offerings, probably know by now their litigation is doomed, a New York University law professor said during a recent interview. “My guess is they know they’re going to lose those lawsuits,” Richard Epstein, who also […]