Energy and Environment
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Students are set to skip school again Friday for another climate strike.
This isn't the first time students have cut class for the cause and they say it won't be their last.
Students in the Portland area say they'll continue striking until officials make real, tangible moves against the climate crisis.
The Madric climate change conference, COP25, began today and will last till Dec. 13. Per the U.N. website, the conference "is designed to take the next crucial steps in the U.N. climate change process" which includes making plans for 2020 climate action plans in areas such as finance, forests and agriculture, technology, capacity building, indigenous peoples, cities, oceans, and gender.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other congressional Democrats are in Madrid for U.N. climate talks this week, lending a high-profile voice to U.S. supporters of the Paris climate agreement as the 2020 elections heat up.
Democrats said their presence would demonstrate continued commitment to tackling climate change in the U.S. government, even as President Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared Monday that the United States will join other nations in their fight against climate change at a United Nations-led press conference in Madrid, Spain.
"By coming here we want to say to everyone, we're still in," Pelosi said of the U.S.'s commitment to tackling global warming. "The United States is still in."
A freshman Colorado congressman, troubled by allegations of climate censorship by the Trump administration, is attempting to make it harder for political appointees to scrub scientific information from government reports.
Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) introduced legislation this month dubbed the "Stop Climate Censorship Act." If enacted, it would require political appointees at federal agencies to provide data to back up any decisions to remove climate change content from scientific studies or press releases.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will lead a delegation of congressional Democrats to the United Nations climate change conference in Madrid next week, her office announced Saturday.
The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee advanced key legislation to address the growing global marine debris crisis late last week. The Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (S.1982/H.R.2969) – sponsored by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) – would create a federal marine debris foundation, establish a "genius prize" to encourage the development of solutions to address plastics pollution, and launch a number of federal studies into marine debris.
A pair of Democratic lawmakers called on the National Academy of Sciences to review EPA's proposed science transparency rule over concerns it would inhibit the agency's ability to protect Americans' health and the environment by limiting the scope of research EPA could consider.