As the planet rapidly heats towards catastrophic temperatures that threaten all life on the planet, Donald Trump has decided to decimate the solar industry in America. While ostensibly protecting the few solar firms that make panels in the US, Trump has slapped huge tariffs on ...read more

Looking forward to 2018 and 2020, the Democrats need to work together if they want to stop the Trump administration plunging the country and the rest of the planet into an ecological abyss, because shit just got very, very real. From the Atlantic:   Since January, the Trump ...read more

EPA director and climate change denier Scott Pruitt told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord because the president's primary concern was "American jobs", not climate change. Citing a provably false list of statistics, Tapper's guests that ...read more

We are experiencing an extreme moment in human history that is greatly destabilizing and emotionally traumatizing for many, many people and it is easy to get incredibly depressed about it all. While Donald Trump may appear to be the biggest impediment to the change we so ...read more

Yes, this really did just happen. From the NYTimes:  WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Thursday that he will withdraw the United States from participation in the Paris climate accord, weakening global efforts to combat climate change and siding with conservatives who argued ...read more

One of the most difficult things about being in the news industry in the Trump era is the relentlessly bad news -- it comes faster and faster and faster with almost no end in sight. This means there are so many stories to cover, so many scandals with so many angles that it is ...read more

As if Trump's presidency couldn't get more surreal, Politico is now reporting that the Energy Department's international climate office has been told not to use the phrase "climate change". Yes, really: A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told ...read more

Astrophysicist and "Cosmos" presenter Neil seGrasse Tyson took to Twitter yesterday to deliver a brutal takedown of the Trump administration's newly unveiled budget that cut everything other than military spending: Having spent his entire professional career as a ...read more

Part of creating a workable, practical resistance to Donald Trump is correctly diagnosing what we are up against. While the terrible news is often overwhelming, ignoring it will do nothing to change what is happening. Take for example, the Trump administration's announcement ...read more

Donald Trump and his team of anti-intellectual zealots are playing Russian (no pun intended) Roulette with humanity's future at a unique moment in our history -- the only window of time we have to stop cooking the planet before it is too late... To continue reading this article, ...read more