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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.
This year is on track to be the second-hottest on record, surprising climate scientists who thought natural weather patterns could break a multiyear trend of record-breaking temperature increases.
The United States is not ready to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic, the head of the Coast Guard said yesterday.
In a Washington where climate change is again a hot debate topic, there is one bulwark of climate science that may be impossible for critics to tear down: U.S. EPA's endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
It's finally adrift. When the Larsen C Ice Shelf calved yesterday, it sent one of the largest icebergs ever recorded slipping into a sea frosted with smaller chunks of ice. It marked the end of a decadeslong splintering first seen by satellites in the 1960s. The crack stayed small for years until, in 2014, it began racing across the Antarctic ice.
U.S. EPA has removed a link to documents on its website for the research that underpins the Obama administration's consequential "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases.