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White House reinstates climate adviser removed by Trump Morgan Chalfant © The Hill White House reinstates climate adviser removed by Trump The White House has reinstated a top adviser overseeing the government's reports on climate change after the official was removed from the position under former President Trump last year. Officials announced on Wednesday that Michael Kuperberg had returned to the position of executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, six months after he was reassigned during the previous administration. Officials stressed the need for...

Michael Kuperberg has returned as the executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

ADVERTISEMENT Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) on Wednesday chastised oil company executives who declined her invitation to testify before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, saying they “declined to answer to the American people.” Porter, who chairs the subcommittee, invited the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Devon Energy and EOG Resources to testify at a hearing, which was titled, “Misuse of Taxpayer Dollars and Corporate Welfare in the Oil and Gas Industry.” All three, as well as officials with the trade group Western Energy Alliance, ultimately declined. Por...

Bjorn Lomborg, president of Copenhagen Consensus, argues the left is using fear to push costly, radical climate policies. The White House has brought back the scientist responsible for overseeing the government’s climate reports after he was ousted by the Trump administration last year.  The Biden administration announced Dr. Michael Kuperberg had returned to the position of executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, six months after he’d been reassigned from that post to one in the Department of Energy.  Officials emphasized that Kuperberg had provided nonpartisan s...

feed to stay on top of the news. The Washington Post reports climate scientist Michael Kuperberg was reinstated as executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Monday. Kuperberg was removed from the role after the presidential election and reassigned to the Department of Energy.  As head of the program, Kuperberg will oversee the production of the National Climate Assessment. The report is considered the federal government’s “state of the Union” on climate change and is vetted by 13 federal agencies.  The assessment provides information and observed changes, the curr...