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Minister of Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, on Tuesday, said that data remained pivotal in national development, especially on its pursuit

“Climate facts are back on EPA’s website where they should be,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in a statement. “Considering the urgency of this crisis, it’s critical that Americans have access to information and resources so that we can all play a role in protecting our environment, our health, and vulnerable communities. Trustworthy, science-based information is at the foundation of strong, achievable solutions.” The EPA for the first time in four years has a webpage “to guide the public to a range of information, including greenhouse gas emissions data, climate change...

After years of delays during the Trump administration, the EPA released its new climate indicators, which show Americans are already feeling effects on

It took some time, but the EPA finally acknowledged humans are causing climate change It was waaaay overdue. A A Reset It’s obvious to say at this point that climate change is caused by humans and the greenhouse gas emissions we produce. Well, for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it kind of wasn’t. For the first time ever, the agency publicly and officially acknowledged that human activities from fossil fuel extractions to agriculture are behind the growing greenhouse gas emissions. This was part of a climate report that was due in 2017 but was de...

After hearing the news that then President-elect Donald Trump had appointed a notorious climate change denier to lead the Environmental Protection Agency transition team in 2016, Nicholas Shapiro, an environmental anthropologist, penned an urgent email to a dozen or so fellow scientists. He was worried that the EPA was about to be torn apart from the inside under Trump’s leadership. Others on the email thread were concerned that vital environmental data would be taken down from federal websites and destroyed. They’d just seen brutal attacks on science in Canada — irreplaceable scientif...