Elliott Negin, IndependentAustralia

Elliott Negin

IndependentAustralia

Washington, DC, United States

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Past:
  • IndependentAustralia
  • HuffPost
  • BillMoyers.com

Past articles by Elliott:

Fossil fuels put climate crisis price tag in the billions

Governments across the USA are suing major climate polluters for the damage caused by their ‘intentional, reckless and negligent’ actions. → Read More

Trump Vows To Kill 50 Years Of Federal Health And Safety Protections

Going back to "the 1960 level" isn't a good thing. → Read More

Hyping U.S. Missile Defense Capabilities Could Have Grave Consequences

In response to North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test, which flew higher and farther than any of its previous launches, President Trump told America... → Read More

Trump Nominee Kathleen Hartnett White Ignores Climate Change In Her Own Backyard

Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump’s pick to chair the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), testified at her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday and, like many Trump nominees to date, showed herself to be an unqualified, polluter-friendly ideologue who rejects mainstream climate science. “Your positions are so far out of the mainstream, they are not just outliers,… → Read More

EPA Chief Pruitt’s Halloween Trick Will Scare the Health Out of You

All told, Pruitt shrunk the Science Advisory Board from 47 to 42 participants and more than doubled the number of its polluter-friendly members. → Read More

Memo To EPA Chief Pruitt: Let’s End Subsidies For Fossil Fuels, Not Renewables

Fossil fuels have been feasting at the government trough for at least 100 years. Renewables, by comparison, have had to subsist on scraps. → Read More

Memo To EPA Chief Pruitt: Let's End Subsidies For Fossil Fuels, Not Renewables

Government handouts for coal, oil and gas dwarf those for wind and solar. → Read More

Coal Is Going Down, Even Without the Clean Power Plan

The rapid transition away from coal-powered electricity is likely to continue no matter what the Trump administration does. → Read More

Will EPA Administrator Pruitt Tap Polluter-Friendly Scientists For Key Advisory Panel?

A third of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, an influential panel that reviews the science the agency uses in formulating saf... → Read More

Will EPA Administrator Pruitt Tap Polluter-Friendly Scientists For Key Advisory Panel?

A third of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, an influential panel that reviews the science the agency uses in formulating saf... → Read More

Polluter-Friendly Scientists May Soon Join a Key EPA Advisory Panel

Scott Pruitt may soon replace the professionals in the EPA Science Advisory Board with advocates for industry interests. → Read More

Will New Scientific Breakthroughs Pave The Way For More Climate-Related Lawsuits?

As climate change impacts worsen and become more expensive to address, the question of financial responsibility will become more urgent. → Read More

Will New Scientific Breakthroughs Pave The Way For More Climate-Related Lawsuits?

As climate change impacts worsen and become more expensive to address, the question of financial responsibility will become more urgent. → Read More

Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference

Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was one of 30 U.S.-based scientists scheduled to speak at the quadrennial International At... → Read More

Trump Should Build A Wall, But Not On The Mexican Border

Coastal states, counties and cities, including several with Trump properties, are already grappling with the threat of sea level rise. → Read More

Trump Should Build A Wall, But Not On The Mexican Border

Coastal states, counties and cities, including several with Trump properties, are already grappling with the threat of rising ocean levels. → Read More

ExxonMobil Talks A Good Game, But It’s Still Funding Climate Science Deniers

ExxonMobil executives repeatedly claim their company supports a federal carbon tax and the Paris climate agreement. The company’s checkbook ... → Read More

Can Trump’s Koch-Funded Appointees Stall Clean Energy Momentum?

Trump appointed Daniel Simmons, a veteran of the Koch’s climate science denier network, to run the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. → Read More

Trump's War On Federal Science Will Stifle Innovation And Hurt The Economy

Proposed cuts would hamstring research at federal agencies that have a long history of doing the heavy lifting. → Read More

Environmental Protections Save Lives And Strengthen The Economy

Economists explain that environmental protections rarely lead to job losses in large part because they are relatively cheap to implement. → Read More