CLIMATE

Lawmakers press Mattis on 'Rubik's Cube' of warming

Sam Mintz, E&E News reporter

Published: Friday, June 16, 2017

There were plenty of critical issues for Secretary of Defense James Mattis to discuss during a four-day budget blitz on Capitol Hill this week, including threats from Russia and North Korea, troop levels and strategy in Afghanistan, and President Trump's proposed funding increase for the military.

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ICE BOUND

Our reporter boards an icebreaker for 6 weeks. Here's why

Dozens of scientists will board an enormous German icebreaker known as the Polarstern on Friday. The ship will spend the next year frozen in ice to unravel the Arctic's mysterious connections to climate change. An E&E News reporter will be with them.

By Chelsea Harvey in Climatewire 6:39 AM EDT

AUTOS

The coming clash between unions and EVs

UAW's push to unionize a VW plant in Tennessee was the latest episode in a struggle that could rise up again — next time over making electric cars.

By Maxine Joselow and Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire 7:14 AM EDT

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