Vol. 1, No. 234

Trump Transition Team Reportedly Questions State Department on Climate Funding

After disavowing a questionnaire sent to the Department of Energy requesting information on its climate change efforts, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has reportedly requested similar information from the State Department, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. “As part of a list of questions posed last week to the department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental […]
  • More Than Half of Trump Voters Support Upholding Current Climate Policies: Poll

    Regardless of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises to unravel President Barack Obama’s climate legacy, 55 percent of Trump voters support upholding current climate change policy and 30 percent support further action on climate, according to survey results Tuesday from the Glover Park Group and Morning Consult. “Contrary to campaign rhetoric and the Republican platform – […]

  • DOE Funding Coal Research Projects at Universities

    The U.S. Department of Energy is accepting applications to fund new research through its annual University Coal Research (UCR) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU/OMI) programs. Submissions to the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) are for fiscal 2017, which began on Oct. 1. “Through this proposed Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the […]

  • Environmental Groups Protest Trump ‘Climate Denial Cabinet’

    A group of 50 protesters Tuesday headed to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team office in Washington, D.C. to teach the incoming administration a thing or two about climate change. “In opposition of Trump’s Climate Denial Cabinet, participants held a climate teach-in outside the Trump transition office to provide his administration with a much-needed lesson in […]

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