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Yahoo
03-08-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former Congressman Lee Zeldin was confronted with his previous remarks on climate change after his agency reversed its 2009 finding that greenhouse emissions pose a threat to humans.
President Donald Trump's environment chief looked like a deer in headlights when confronted with his previous remarks about climate change. CNN host Katie Hunt quizzed Environmental Protection Agency Commissioner Lee Zeldin about his announcement on Tuesday that the agency would reverse its 2009 finding that greenhouse emissions pose a threat to human health. 'You're sounding pretty skeptical ... of this overall scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the overwhelming, manmade, climate change driver,' Hunt said on State of the Union Sunday.
Bloomberg
03-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The World's Biggest Polluter Is Cleaning Up Its Act
Start steering around an oil tanker, and you'll find it slow, almost imperceptible work. When such a vast vessel begins to shift, however, the momentum is almost unstoppable. It's the same situation with the most important destination for the world's LNG carriers, coal ships and oil tankers over the past few decades: China. The biggest consumer of carbon, and the source of a third of annual greenhouse emissions, is finally turning a corner to a cleaner future. China's size is so overwhelming that when its fossil fuel consumption peaks, as it's doing now, it will shift the direction of the whole planet.
