UK Guardian: ‘Groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonization’ – Claims ‘climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism & colonialism’
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/28/dark-laboratory-groundbreaking-book-argues-climate-crisis-was-sparked-by-colonisation By Damien Gayle We all think we know what is causing the breakdown of the planet’s climate: burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide, change the chemistry of the air and trap more heat from the sun, leading to rising temperatures. But Tao Leigh Goffe, an associate professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino […]
No, Washington Post, Climate Change is Not Racist Against Australian Aboriginal People – WaPo claimed ‘climate change widens the racial divide’
No, Washington Post, Climate Change is Not Racist Against Australian Aboriginal People By Linnea Lueken A recent article at The Washington Post, “In the Australian outback, climate change widens the racial divide,” blames both racism and climate change for Australian Aboriginal people living in a hot Australian outback town. This is nonsense. Poverty is the main […]
‘The Death of Corporate DEI Efforts Is Premature’ – Trump critics say companies are showing ‘moral cowardice’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-19/target-meta-goldman-sachs-and-the-dei-pullback-under-trump By Brad Stone President Donald Trump’s rollback of what he calls “discriminatory equity ideology” started on his first day in office and continues even today, with a memo aimed at the foreign service. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Brad Stone writes in Remarks for April’s issue of the magazine about American companies’ widespread withdrawal of efforts to diversify their workforces and […]
Trump EPA Cancels ‘Environmental Justice’ Grants the Biden Admin Awarded to Its Own Advisers
Trump EPA Cancels ‘Environmental Justice’ Grants the Biden Admin Awarded to Its Own Advisers By Thomas Catenacci March 11, 2025 The Environmental Protection Agency canceled two $20 million environmental justice grants that the Biden administration awarded to its own advisers, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. On Monday, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s latest round of grant cancellations […]
Biden EPA Officials Spent Time ‘De-Gendering’ Bathrooms and Policing Pronoun Use, Internal Docs Show
Biden EPA Officials Spent Time ‘De-Gendering’ Bathrooms and Policing Pronoun Use, Internal Docs Show By Thomas Catenacci March 10, 2025 Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency employees spent work hours implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies throughout the agency—focusing in particular on “de-gendering” bathrooms, hiring more gay and transgender employees, and introducing new gender-neutral honorifics such as […]
A $20 Billion Slush Fund — The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — Paid by You – ‘Biden admin used so-called ‘climate equity’ to justify handouts of billions of dollars to their far-left friends’
https://www.thefp.com/p/a-20-billion-slush-fund-nonprofits It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials. By Madeleine Rowley The Department of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Joe Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Created in the […]
Analysis: Environmental Justice (EJ) communities swung more decisively toward Trump than non-EJ communities
Environmental Justice communities swung more decisively towards Trump than non-EJ communities. New analysis from @atrembath and @lrntex @TheBTI. The premise of Biden climate and EJ strategies was that delivering clean energy jobs and environmental benefits would assure that EJ… pic.twitter.com/nBXNj0vJbA — Ted Nordhaus (@TedNordhaus) March 3, 2025 Environmental Justice Communities Swing Towards Trump By […]
Netherlands significantly cuts development aid, ‘threatening projects for gender equality & climate action’ under the ‘Netherlands-first approach’
https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/400d259f-85b5-4392-8cd9-038104a64499 By Reinette Klever We’ve been extensively writing, here on We Don’t Have Time, about the freeze of USAID funding that Trump has announced and the devastating consequences that this decision has and will have on climate action in the US and around the world. The thing is: he has now inspired other leaders to […]
Analysis: ‘Ending the Fallacy of Environmental Racism’
https://dcjournal.com/ending-the-fallacy-of-environmental-racism/ by Melanie Collette The debate over environmental justice has been overtaken by the term “environmental racism” — the claim that minority communities suffer disproportionately from pollution because of systemic racism. While it is true that some communities face more significant environmental challenges, blaming these disparities entirely on race oversimplifies the issue and leads to ineffective […]
‘Drill, baby, drill’ is part of Trump’s ‘macho’ talk, Harvard ‘climate historian’ says
https://www.thecollegefix.com/drill-baby-drill-is-part-of-trumps-macho-talk-harvard-climate-historian-says/ By Matt Lamb – When President Donald Trump says he wants to drill for more American oil, he is projecting a “macho” ideology, according to a Harvard University “climate historian.” Harvard scientist Naomi Oreskes, described by Haaretz as a “climate historian,” recently criticized President Trump’s pledge to open more land for drilling and to […]