Scott Waldman
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Docs: Trump urged Fox News owner to order attacks on Blankenship
Coal executive Don Blankenship was a target of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch in the final days of the West Virginia GOP Senate primary in 2018. → Read More
Climate misinformation spreads on Musk's Twitter
Twitter users who were banned for spreading conspiracy theories are reappearing on the platform since the billionaire bought the social media giant two → Read More
How Warnock's win changes the climate game for Senate Dems
Sen. Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia won't help Democrats pass bills. But securing a 51st Senate seat unlocks new resources — and investigative tools — → Read More
What's next for climate politics? 7 results offer clues.
With a thin majority, the House GOP risks becoming paralyzed between members who want to ax Biden's climate programs and those inclined to cut a deal. → Read More
For climate voters, the future is female
A spike in female voter registration following the Supreme Court's reversal of abortion rights this summer could help green the electorate, analysts say. → Read More
SOTU: What Biden said — and didn’t say — on climate
After searching for a climate win during the first year of his presidency, Biden used his State of the Union address to focus on other crises. → Read More
Climate denial still flourishes on Facebook — report
About half the content from major publishers of climate denial receives warning labels and very little is fact-checked, a new report from the Center for → Read More
Joe Manchin-connected power plant hasn't paid rent in a decade
Grant Town’s owner, American Bituminous Power Partners, stopped paying rent in 2012 and has waged a legal battle for years over the amount it owes. → Read More
Former TV host sues Facebook over climate fact checks
A former Fox Business News host who works with climate denial groups is suing Facebook Inc. for fact-checking his global warming videos. → Read More
Climate denial newspaper flourishes on Facebook
One of the most-viewed sites on Facebook was a subscription page for a conservative media outlet that promotes climate denial. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: McCarthy: Nuclear energy isn't going anywhere
The White House sees nuclear energy as a key part of the pathway to decarbonize the grid by 2035. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Biden promises to slash carbon up to 52% by 2030
President Biden will announce historic climate commitments today at a White House summit with dozens of world leaders. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Meet the climate team's chief of staff
Maggie Thomas is a battle-hardened climate veteran who helped three presidential candidates. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Gina McCarthy outlines Biden's first climate actions
Joe Biden will spend his first hours as president trying to obliterate much of the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda, restore public land protections and reestablish the United States as a global leader on climate change policy. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Trump admin starts work on climate report after outcry
The Trump administration has quietly restarted the National Climate Assessment after public outcry over its delay. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Trump wants to use FEMA disaster funds for unemployment
President Trump plans to use disaster money to help the unemployed. It comes at the height of hurricane season. → Read More
POLITICS: How CO2 boosters' op-ed slipped by Facebook fact-checkers
Climate scientists working as fact-checkers for Facebook evaluated a post by a White House-connected group that claims the world needs to burn more fossil fuels.They marked it as false under the social medium's standards. It didn't last long. → Read More
U.S. conservatives who detest climate models add a new target: coronavirus models
Lawmakers and pundits cast doubt on numerical forecasting → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Trump promotes fossil fuels at climate-focused forum
President Trump arrived this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a sales pitch for American energy and little patience for climate activists -- which he called "perennial prophets of doom." → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: How a small gas firm in Ukraine led to impeachment inquiry
A hiring decision by an obscure Ukranian energy company five years ago helped spark the historic House inquiry that could lead to just the third impeachment of an American president. → Read More