Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Trump just killed the EPA’s ability to fight climate change. It may backfire.

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:01:38 -0000

   The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court. President Donald Trump’s …

2. 'So Mortifying': Trump Was Given Yet Another Weird Award, And Critics Are Aghast

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:33:39 -0000

   The president has another trophy for his shelf. President Donald Trump was given yet another award on Wednesday ― and once again, it was an honor never bestowed before and perhaps never to be issued again. The Washington Coal Club awarded the president a trophy declaring him the “Undisputed Champion …

3. EPA abandons the foundation of greenhouse gas rules

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:44:41 -0000

   The EPA has overturned a formal 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare, President Trump said …

4. How Wood Records the Sun’s Most Violent Outbursts

   Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:22:54 -0000

   Somewhere around the year 774 CE, the Sun erupted with extraordinary violence. High energy particles slammed into Earth’s atmosphere, triggering …

5. Trump administration moves to end "universally hated" start/stop feature for cars

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:54:00 -0000

   The Trump administration said it's ending a credit for automakers that install a so-called "start/stop feature" in the vehicles, part of a broader …

6. FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:38:52 -0000

   The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups. Federal …

7. The Oil Industry's Latest Disaster: Trillions of Gallons of Buried Toxic Wastewater

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:30:28 -0000

   This story is published in partnership with DeSmog, the climate investigations site. A cache of government documents dating back nearly a century …

8. Jordan Klepper Nails The 'F**king Idiot' Trump Put In Charge Of A Crucial Agency

   Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:01:50 -0000

   The "Daily Show" host tore into the president for stripping away key environmental protections. “Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper on Monday mocked President Donald Trump for the assortment of oddball awards and trophies he’s been collecting since returning to the White House. This week, he …

9. Trump directs Pentagon to purchase coal-fired electricity

   Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:35:00 -0000

   Feb. 12 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to purchase coal-fired electricity to boost domestic coal production, a move that …

10. The Trump administration calls its climate change policy shift the ‘largest deregulatory action’ in history—but experts say the impact will be limited

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:38:41 -0000

    The Trump administration is framing its decision to repeal the landmark legal finding that’s used for the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions—for …

11. 15 Creepy Ways Everything Has Changed Under Trump since 2025

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:12:09 -0000

    The world looks vastly different now that it ever has before. It’s hard to imagine a world before COVID-19, before artificial intelligence and even …

12. China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink

    Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:43:43 -0000

    Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs …

13. Nobody asked: Trump’s DOJ steps up uninvited recommendations at Supreme Court

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:00:46 -0000

    President Donald Trump’s administration is stepping into high-profile appeals at the Supreme Court without invitation at an unprecedented pace, supporting conservative groups in cases dealing with guns, religion and climate change. The court regularly invites the Justice Department to offer its view …

14. President Obama reacts to Trump rolling back environmental rule he established in 2009: 'We’ll be less safe'

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:25:33 -0000

    The NAACP condemned the EPA repeal, warning that it will leave Black and other frontline communities in a "uniquely tenuous situation." The Trump …

15. The plan to wall off the ‘Doomsday’ glacier

    Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:14:46 -0000

    A group of engineers and scientists are planning to build a 50-mile underwater barrier around the melting “Doomsday glacier” in a bid to stop it …

16. Australia's Liberals Elect Net Zero Opponent As New Leader

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:11:00 -0000

    Australia's opposition Liberal Party elected as leader on Friday a conservative who lobbied to drop its commitment to net zero emissions, as it seeks …

17. EPA ends credits for automatic start-stop vehicle ignition, a feature Zeldin says 'everyone hates'

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:42:13 -0000

    DETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce emissions that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said “everyone hates.” In remarks with President Donald …

18. Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:45:05 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them. President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human …

19. Giddy Trump, 79, Accepts Another Made Up Award

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:19:09 -0000

    Like the “FIFA Peace Prize,” the pro-coal award was given to him in its inaugural year. Climate change-denying President Donald Trump received a …

20. US EPA revokes scientific finding: Trump repeals landmark ruling on climate change

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:05:53 -0000

    President Trump repeals EPA endangerment finding, ending vehicle emissions rules; US Supreme Court to rule.

21. Sleepy Trump, 79, Rests Eyes Standing Up During ‘Long’ Speech

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:48:27 -0000

    The president did not seem to be interested in hearing about the Clean Air Act. The president was nearly lulled to sleep by a long-winded speech by …

22. Trump’s beef trade deal is a lose-lose gamble that won't lower prices

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    There’s no two ways about it: Eating more beef is bad for the planet and the climate. Last week, President Donald Trump announced the United States …

23. Trump orders Pentagon to buy electricity generated by coal

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:06:51 -0000

    Trump’s order is the latest move by US administration to boost fossil fuel industry despite climate change concerns. United States President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to buy electricity generated by coal, his latest effort to boost demand for the fossil fuel amid its declining cost …

24. GOP Lawmaker Says Bill Being Crafted to Shield Big Oil From Climate Liability Lawsuits | Common Dreams

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:01:41 -0000

    "Let’s be clear: You don’t need immunity unless you are in fact responsible for the damages claimed in these lawsuits," said one climate …

25. A rapidly melting ‘Doomsday Glacier’ and a monstrous deep-sea fish: 6 of nature’s signals that could warn of the end of the world

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:15:44 -0000

    Whether these signs are rooted in science (like the Doomsday Glacier) or simply popular myth, they have been associated with the end of the world – …

26. 'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism

    Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:30:00 -0000

    Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it’s not an accident. The trove of documents released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in relation to Jeffrey Epstein have revealed just how close the convicted child sex …

27. Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:39:06 -0000

    The Trump administration on Thursday reversed the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific conclusion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, erasing a foundational piece of the country’s efforts to address climate change. California, with its ambitious goals for cutting …

28. Barack Obama Issues Warning as Donald Trump Revokes Report: ‘Less Safe’

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:54:38 -0000

    Former President Barack Obama has criticized the Trump administration for revoking the 2009 "endangerment finding," which the Obama administration …

29. Singapore may slow carbon tax price increases if global climate action stalls further, warns PM

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:29:00 -0000

    In his budget address, Singapore’s prime minister Lawrence Wong said that global climate action had slowed, and noted that the country’s emissions …

30. Rural America’s $23.6 billion wipeout: the drought that wouldn’t quit

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Cattle auctions aren’t often all-night affairs. But in Texas Lake Country in June 2022, ranchers facing dwindling water supplies and dried out …