Before science reporter Scott Waldman joined Climatewire in 2016, he covered state energy policy at Politico New York and has worked for the Albany Times Union, Erie Times-News and The Baltimore Sun. His work also has appeared in Scientific American. He won an Associated Press award for his reporting on the Iraq War in 2006. Scott holds a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree from Earlham College.
President Trump's hurricane briefing in the Oval Office yesterday was led by a federal agency whose researchers revealed weeks earlier that climate change is raising the likelihood that major storms could collide with the United States.
Montana is warming faster than most of the United States and is only a few decades away from losing the glaciers that are the namesake for its crown jewel, Glacier National Park.
If President Trump carries out his threat to defund the World Health Organization, it could weaken the group's ability to provide lifesaving climate mitigation measures across the globe, experts said.
President Trump instructed federal agencies yesterday to search for regulations they could suspend or kill in hopes of jolting the U.S. economy out of its pandemic stupor.
Idle planes on the runway. Poor Americans under duress. Energy workers in the unemployment line.