Boiling Point: Why you shouldn’t make deals with the (climate) devil
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Boiling Point: Why you shouldn’t make deals with the (climate) devil

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, flanked by Vice President JD Vance, right, and Ohio Gov. Here’s a sampling of the Trump administration’s latest: The Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back 31 regulations, with EPA chief Lee Zeldin saying the agency is “driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” Those rollbacks threaten California’s progress on clean air and water. Meanwhile, at Trump’s Department of Energy: U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright called climate change a “side effect of building the modern world,” falsely claiming that solar and wind power are more expensive than fossil fuels. Read this story by The Times’ Ian James, which explores a newly released memo revealing how the Army Corps of Engineers responded to Trump’s order to “maximize” water deliveries in California. Bloomberg’s Eliyahu Kamisher, meanwhile, reports that California’s public employee pension system is counting investments in Chevron, Saudi Aramco and other fossil fuel companies as “climate solutions.” FIRE FALLOUT If you open one story about the Los Angeles County wildfires this week, make it this one, by my colleagues David Wharton and Lorena Iñiguez Elebee.

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Boiling Point: Democrats who make nice with Trump aren’t helping on climate
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Democrats who make nice with Trump aren’t helping on climate

LA Times  

What do you do, as a politician, when your lawfully elected opponents reveal they have nothing but contempt for the Constitution, rule of law and separation of powers? Eight Senate Democrats voted to confirm Chris Wright, a fossil fuel executive who downplays the well-documented link between climate change and worsening fires, as Trump’s Energy secretary. California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, …

Boiling Point: The L.A. Times is starting a climate change podcast
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Boiling Point: The L.A. Times is starting a climate change podcast

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The world has changed since I started writing Boiling Point five years ago. Meanwhile, a Times analysis found that California officials “have repeatedly declined to fund wildfire prevention efforts in communities devastated by the Palisades fire.” Here’s the story from my colleague Connor Sheets. In the months leading up to the Eaton fire, state officials criticized Southern California Edison over …

Boiling Point: Let’s get real about climate change and affordable energy
3 months, 1 week ago

Boiling Point: Let’s get real about climate change and affordable energy

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference in San Diego near the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 5. In other big federal news, the Environmental Protection Agency approved California’s landmark rule banning the sale of new gasoline-only passenger cars by 2035 — a priority for Newsom. Environmental groups, for instance, are suing California over the state’s low carbon fuel standard, which …

Boiling Point: Trump can’t stop clean energy. But he can slow it down
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Trump can’t stop clean energy. But he can slow it down

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Workers install photovoltaic panels at the Eland solar and storage plant in California’s Kern County on Nov. 25. That’s why President Biden is rushing to get billions of dollars in clean energy loans finalized before President-elect Trump takes office, per Canary Media’s Akielly Hu. Colorado is catching up with California on clean vehicle sales and leases — which is awesome, …

Boiling Point: Biden is running out of time to lock in climate action
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Biden is running out of time to lock in climate action

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump meets with President Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 13. Conservation groups and Native American tribes are urging Biden to establish four new national monuments in California before he leaves office, including two in the desert, per The Times’ Lila Seidman. Trump’s nominees could affect climate policy and energy prices, too: Trump’s …

Boiling Point: Intentionally destroying the climate is not normal
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Intentionally destroying the climate is not normal

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Doug Burgum, seen speaking during the Republican National Convention in July, is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Interior secretary. Bush, 1988 “There is a real problem that we as a world face from global warming.” — Christine Todd Whitman, appointed by then-President George W. Bush to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, 2001 “It’s important for us to reduce our emissions …

Boiling Point: Trump is coming for climate progress. Here we go again
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Trump is coming for climate progress. Here we go again

LA Times  

Then-President Trump and then-Paradise Mayor Jody Jones view damage from the Camp fire in Paradise, Calif., in November 2018. Unlike the first time around, when chaos reigned, Trump’s second administration might have a strong legal plan right out of the gate for undoing climate rules. Speaking of the Colorado, it turns out the Western drought from 2020 to 2022 — …

Column: Trump is a climate crisis all by himself. But it’s not game over
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Trump is a climate crisis all by himself. But it’s not game over

LA Times  

Eight years ago this week — the last time Donald Trump was elected president of the United States — I offered a grim prognosis of what his ascendance might mean for the climate crisis. Daniel Day-Lewis portrays President Lincoln in director Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln.” Two degrees of heating would be a lot worse than 1.5 degrees, and 2.5 would …

Boiling Point: Why I skipped the presidential debate and went to a baseball game
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Why I skipped the presidential debate and went to a baseball game

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Simon Sutton, 14, and his stepmom Summer Stagg react during Tuesday’s presidential debate at a watch party in San Francisco. This was a “reliable” fossil fueled power plant failing to do its job because of climate-exacerbated extreme weather — not an uncommon occurrence, as I’ve reported previously. But Sunday’s game-time temperature was so high — 103 degrees at 1:10 p.m., …

Boiling Point: Heat, fires, floods — extreme weather has affected 99% of Americans
7 months, 1 week ago

Boiling Point: Heat, fires, floods — extreme weather has affected 99% of Americans

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Welcome to Boiling Point. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, says it’s creating a new agricultural unit that will “significantly expand enforcement.” Climate change is altering conditions for desert plants, and scientists have for years projected that rising temperatures will make large portions of the Mojave Desert unsuitable for Joshua trees to survive by the …

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis

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Oil and gas conglomerate Exxon Mobil could be a key player in global efforts to combat the climate crisis — if only governments would remove burdensome regulations and stop wasting money on inefficient clean energy incentives. I also shook my head in amazement as Woods suggested that a major barrier to slashing carbon pollution is that the world lacks “a …

Column: Changing our lives is scary. But the climate crisis is way scarier
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Changing our lives is scary. But the climate crisis is way scarier

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“I want you to stop changing your lives, OK? Yet as I’ve traversed the American West over the last two years with my L.A. Times colleagues, exploring how the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy is reshaping sensitive ecosystems and rural communities, one lesson has risen above the rest: If we don’t embrace change now, while we still have …

Column: Solving climate change will have side effects. Get over it
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: Solving climate change will have side effects. Get over it

LA Times  

When I wrote a column two weeks ago urging the Biden administration to approve a lot more solar and wind farms on Western public lands, I knew I would get flak from critics of large-scale renewable energy — and indeed I did. I could spend all my time singing the praises of rooftop solar — which I did last week, …

Column: Want people to understand climate change? Pay the experts
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: Want people to understand climate change? Pay the experts

LA Times  

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain is tired of working for free. “And that doesn’t exist anywhere.” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, left, with Armando Quintero, director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, at a conference hosted by Together Bay Area in 2023. An incredible new analysis concludes that 20 farming families in California’s Imperial Valley use 1.2 million …

Boiling Point: The climate change challenge is ours
1 year, 7 months ago

Boiling Point: The climate change challenge is ours

LA Times  

Farmworker Leticia Jimenez, 61, inside her home at the Oasis Mobile Home Park in August in Thermal, Calif. Edited by Alice Short, “Our Climate Change Challenge” focuses on what must be done to slow down and ultimately reverse global warming, and who needs to do it: not just government and business, but every one of us. More particularly, how are …

Boiling Point: Where’s the urgency?
1 year, 9 months ago

Boiling Point: Where’s the urgency?

LA Times  

Sunset over the Tulare Lake Canal. Making sure people have air conditioning could limit the harm — but landlords are already pushing back against a proposal being floated at L.A. City Council to require AC units, The Times’ Nathan Solis reports. Also in the Land of Enchantment, state officials banned new oil and gas leases on state trust lands within …

Editorial: Why we wrote our series on climate change
5 years, 6 months ago

Editorial: Why we wrote our series on climate change

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Times editorial board has been writing about the climate change debacle for years. We’ve written about its relationship to the intensified California wildfires, about the importance of moving to sustainable energy sources, about the importance of the Paris accords, about the ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California, the United States and around the world. …

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