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general<wbr>, worked closely with companies to battle
environmental ...</span></div>
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255);">In another email chain on March 21, 2013, Whitsitt wrote to
Pruitt's office offering a draft of a letter that state attorneys
general might sign and send to the then-acting EPA administrator
regarding limits on methane emissions. Devon, which has ...</div>
<blockquote> The emails highlight an often-chummy relationship
between Pruitt's office and Devon Energy, a major oil and gas
exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City. The
correspondence makes clear that top officials at the company met
often with Pruitt or people who worked for him. Devon
representatives also helped draft — and redraft — letters for
Pruitt to sign and send to federal officials in an effort to stave
off new regulations...<br>
"Any suggestions?" a deputy solicitor general in Pruitt's office
wrote to a Devon executive in early May 2013, including a draft of
a letter the office was planning to send to the EPA regarding
proposed regulations of methane emissions...<br>
"Here you go," the executive, Bill Whitsitt replied. "Please note
that you could use just the red changes, or both red and blue (the
latter being some further improvements from one of our experts) or
none."..<br>
"I sent the letter today," the deputy solicitor general wrote the
following day. "Thanks for all your help on this."..<br>
The emails show that Pruitt and his office were in touch with a
network of conservative groups, many of which in the past have
received backing from billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H.
Koch, the libertarian owners of Koch Industries, a major oil
company. The documents detail not only how Pruitt's office at
times coordinated with industry officials to fight unwanted
regulations from Washington, but also how he was a highly
sought-after speaker at conferences and other gatherings for
groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, which
works with corporate interests and state legislators to shape key
pieces of legislation.<br>
In one example, Pruitt was a speaker at an ALEC conference on May
3, 2013, in Oklahoma City. He was part of a panel called,
"Embracing American Energy Opportunities: From Wellheads to
Pipelines." The event also featured a reception at the Petroleum
Club and a luncheon sponsored by Koch Industries...<br>
The Oklahoma attorney general's office handed over the batch of
emails — nearly 7,000 pages in all — this week in order to meet a
deadline set by a judge who ordered the documents' release
following more than two years of effort by CMD, a liberal watchdog
organization. The group had sued to compel the state to release
the documents under public records laws. (The emails can be <a
href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails">viewed
here</a>.)<br>
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<blockquote>In separate letters last week, more than 100 Catholic
leaders, among them bishops and university presidents, continued
to voice their conviction that the Trump administration maintain
three signature climate change policies reached under former
President Barack Obama.<br>
One letter from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
addressed the Paris climate accord and the international Green
Climate Fund. Another, organized by Catholic Climate Covenant,
sought protection of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
Clean Power Plan...<br>
"Adaptation policy is fundamentally concerned with helping God's
creatures and all human beings, especially those who are poor,
to adapt to the effects of climate change, regardless of the
causes," the letter stated. "From the perspective of Catholic
social teaching, adaptation ranks among the most important
actions we can take," listing hurricanes, floods, droughts,
famines and water shortages as weather disasters that hit the
poor and most vulnerable of society the hardest....<br>
On the Paris Agreement, the deal struck in December 2015 binding
195 nations to limit global temperature rise between 1.5 and 2
degrees Celsius, the bishops and CRS president said the deal "is
a key step" toward supporting not only adaptation and mitigation
efforts in other countries, but also in cutting U.S. carbon
emissions...<br>
More generally, the letter appealed to Tillerson to lead the
country beyond a narrow, politicized and ideologically driven
debate on climate change, citing Pope Francis' encyclical
"Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," in which he affirmed
the view that while natural causes and other factors have
contributed to climate change, the vast scientific consensus
indicates it has mainly resulted from human activity,
specifically the burning of fossil fuels...<br>
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Plane flies along Antarctica's giant Larsen crack</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released new footage
of the ice crack that promises to produce a giant berg. The
175km-long fissure runs through the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the
eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.</div>
<blockquote> The 175km-long fissure runs through the Larsen C Ice
Shelf on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.<br>
If it propagates just 20km more, a block of ice a quarter the size
of Wales will break away into the Weddell Sea.<br>
Scientists gathered the new video while recovering instrumentation
that had been placed on the ice shelf.<br>
Uncertainty about the stability of the region means researchers
cannot set up camp as they would normally do, and instead make
short visits in a Twin Otter plane...<br>
The most recent sortie enabled the researchers also to fly along
the length of the crack, which is 400-500m wide in places, to
assess its status.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://thebaffler.com/blog/category/war-of-nerves">The
Slow Confiscation of Everything How to think about climate
apocalypse</a></b></font><br>
Laurie Penny February 17, 2017<br>
<blockquote>There will be no definite moment can say that yes, today
we are fucked, and yesterday we were unfucked. Instead the fuckery
increases incrementally year on year, until this is the way the
world ends: not with a bang, not with a bonfire, but with the slow
and savage confiscation of every little thing that made you human,
starting with hope.<br>
... The topic of apocalypse comes up a lot these days. It's
slipped into conversation as compulsively as you might mention any
other potentially distressing disruption to your life plans, such
as a family member's illness, or a tax audit. And yet the
substance of the conversation has shifted in recent weeks and
months from an atmosphere of chronic to acute crisis. The end
seems to be slightly more nigh than it was last year; we talk
about the Trumpocalypse with less and less irony as the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists moves the Doomsday clock half a minute
closer to midnight. <br>
Of all the despicable things the runaway ghost train of the Trump
administration has done in its first ferocious weeks, the attempt
to utterly destroy every instrument of environmental protection is
perhaps the most permanent. The appointment of fossil fuel tycoons
and fanatical climate change deniers to key positions in energy
and foreign policy, the immediate reinstitution of the Dakota
Access and Keystone pipelines, the promise to pull out of the
Paris Climate Pact—all moves crafted to please the oil magnates
who helped put him in power—these are changes that will hasten the
tick of the time bomb under civilization as we know it. Racist
laws can eventually be overthrown, and even a cultural backslide
toward bigotry and nationalism can be slowly, painfully reversed.
We don't get a do-over on climate change. The vested interests
agitating to strip the planet for parts know that, too—and they
plan to profit from this particular apocalypse as hard as they
can...<br>
A great many modern political currents, especially the new right
and the alt-right, are swept along by the fantasy of a great
civilizational collapse which will wash away whichever injustice
most bothers you, whether that be unfettered corporate influence,
women getting above themselves, or both—any and every humiliation
heaped on the otherwise empty tables of men who had expected more
from their lives, economic humiliations that are served up and
spat back out as racism, sexism, and bigotry. For these men, the
end of the world sounds like a pretty good deal. More and more, it
is only by imagining the end of the world that we can imagine the
end of capitalism in its current form. This remains true even when
it is patently obvious that civilizational collapse might only be
survivable by the elite...<br>
"Every ruthless criticism of current politics should be tied in
some way to an example of how we could do things better," said
Newitz. "I realize that's a tall order, especially when positive
visions often feel like wishful thinking rather than direct
action. Nevertheless we need to know what we are fighting for to
retain our sense of hope. We need maps of where we are going, not
just fire to burn it all down."<br>
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threat to the world's forests.</div>
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Disturbing incidents ranging from nuclear football Facebook
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