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Britain’s electric car roll-out is going to be a disaster for the average motorist. We knew this already but it has just been confirmed by none other than Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own climate spokeswoman. Her name is Allegra Stratton and she has admitted in an interview that she’ll be sticking to her trusty diesel VW Golf, thank you very much, rather than experimenting with electric.

President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce a target date of 2030 for all new car sales in the U.S. to meet zero-emission standards.

The Democrats so-called $1 trillion infrastructure bill contains funding for the left’s favored climate change projects.

As much of the American West faces widespread droughts, farmers and ranchers in central Arizona bear the brunt. They face crop losses and thinner cows as irrigation canals dry.

The public face of the British government’s Cop26 UN climate change conference has said she won’t get an electric car yet because they take too long to charge, so she’ll stick to her old diesel car, instead.

Tucked away on page 508 of the U.S. Senate’s 2,700-page “infrastructure” bill, are the plans for a national “per mile fee” pilot program.

An organization representing the interests of loggers across the country sent a letter on Monday to the U.S. Senate calling on senators to reject the confirmation of Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s controversial nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Record floods across China’s Henan province in July killed 302 people — three times the number originally reported — Henan Communist Party Officials announced Monday.

The drought in northern Mexico is killing off thousands of cattle from starvation and is forcing ranchers to sell herds early. If the trend continues, property owners could turn to the Sinaloa Cartel to augment their finances.

A blaze at a massive Tesla battery site in Australia that started three days ago was brought under control on Monday, firefighters said.

Obscured in more than 2,700 pages of the U.S. Senate’s so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill is a plan for state-mandated carbon reduction programs.

If the United States Senate votes this week on the bipartisan so-called “infrastructure” bill, it would be humanly impossible for any U.S. senator to read it before voting on it.

Two Oregon State University professors have doubled down in declaring a worldwide “climate emergency” and warning of “untold suffering” if fossil fuels are not eliminated.

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the damaged Hyperion sewage treatment plant near LAX has been releasing “partially treated wastewater” into the Pacific Ocean since mid-July, unbeknownst to the public.

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s controversial nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), wrote an article while she was in graduate school advocating for population control, the second such instance of the nominee pushing for a reduction in childbearing for the sake of the environment.

Burgers made of bugs will replace beef in the British diet within a decade to hit ‘net zero’ targets, a Great Reset style review said.

Pop star Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck — members of the celebrity elite who’ve spent years browbeating Americans about the peril the planet faces lest we curtail our carbon footprint — are in the midst of a glamorous vacation around the Mediterranean, living on a $130 million carbon-spewing super yacht.

A massive fire has reportedly broken out at Australia’s largest Tesla battery project and is set to burn throughout the night. A toxic smoke warning has been issued in the area of the fire, which one fire official said could burn for eight to 24 hours.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s climate change spokeswoman and former press secretary has caused her boss some embarrassment by suggesting people “join the Green Party”.

Federal agents examining a cargo ship near New Orleans told it to vacate the country once they found it was infested with a certain type of Asian beetle.

Hot on the heels of Millenials rediscovering traditional glass bottles instead of plastic, the UK may next bring back electric roads. 

A powerful earthquake rocked Alaska’s southern coast early Thursday morning, with prolonged shaking in the aftermath that prompted tsunami warnings across nearby coastal areas.

Republican senators leading the charge against Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), introduced a bill on Wednesday to combat tree spiking after new information surfaced about Stone-Manning’s involvement in a tree spiking plot 30 years ago.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that any infrastructure package must contain large scale environmental policies.

Climate scientist Dr. Willie Soon has urged his fellow academics to pay closer attention to the sun’s activity, which suggests several decades of global cooling rather than warming.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland could not answer for the controversies surrounding Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), when Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confronted Haaland about Stone-Manning during a hearing Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend American taxpayer money, allocated to construct a border wall along the United States-Mexico border, on “environmental restoration,” among other projects. 

The Chinese government relocated 1.65 million people from areas at high risk of floods in eastern China’s Zhejiang province as of Sunday night, China’s state-run Global Times reported Monday.

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), edited a 1991 issue of the Earth First! journal that included an article mocking federal authorities for their inability to solve the infamous tree spiking crime that Stone-Manning herself was involved in.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday denounced Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), over her controversial master’s thesis, which advocated for the creation of population control propaganda for environmental reasons.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air. At least 16 people were injured and five remain missing.

The group of 20 wealthiest nations (G20) failed last week to agree on the wording of key commitments to flight climate change. The failure comes just 100 days ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow.

Londoners were cleaning up Monday after torrential rain left homes, roads and several subway stations flooded.

Former President Donald Trump criticized the Green New Deal proposal from Democrats on Saturday as the “Green New Bullshit.”

The State of California is suffering through a summer of man-made disasters, including wildfires and a sewage discharge, as the Delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps through densely-populated regions.

The New York Times admits that Joe Biden’s promised “green jobs” could actually be “more akin to an Amazon warehouse or a fleet of Uber drivers: grueling work schedules, few unions, middling wages and limited benefits.”