Winter storms help end ‘snow drought’ across parts of the US West

Recent bouts of heavy mountain snowfall in parts of the U.S. West have helped quell a "snow drought" that was threatening to further desiccate an already arid region, federal meteorologists announced Thursday. A major, four-day blizzard earlier this month brought considerable improvements to the Sierra Nevada, freeing the entire region from the so-called "snow drought"...

NOAA hit with layoffs

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Hundreds let go from NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began the process of firing hundreds of probationary workers Thursday, the latest mass job cuts within federal agencies, multiple sources with knowledge of internal operations told The Hill. © AP Photo/Patrick Semansky The...

Casar leads 22 House Democrats in call for federal electric grid corridors in Texas

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US targets 9 vessels in Iran shadow fleet with sanctions

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Trump says the US will be ‘very strongly involved’ in Venezuelan oil 

The U.S. will be “very strongly involved” in Venezuela’s oil industry, President Trump said Saturday after the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Asked about the future of the country’s oil industry on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends”, Trump said, “Well, I see that we’re going to be very strongly involved in it.” “We have the greatest oil...

Another near-record hot year a ‘warning shot’: Scientists

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Last decade was Earth’s hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000-year high, says UN report

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at an 800,000-year high, a report Wednesday said. In its annual State of the Climate report, the World Meteorological Organization laid bare all the markings of an...

Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trump’s wind farm pause

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