White House Muzzles CDC Chief on Climate Health Impacts

onOct 24, 2007 @ 08:56 PDT

The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate.

A draft of the testimony submitted for White House review shows that six pages of details about specific disease and other health problems that might flourish if the Earth warms were not delivered at the hearing.

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us/Developers Eye Louisiana, Texas Coasts for Offshore Carbon Storage

ByPam Radtke / Floodlight

onDec 30, 2024 @ 03:01 PST

Is the Gulf of Mexico the "single best opportunity" to store climate-warming gas — or an existential threat to wildlife and people?

us/Photos: 2024 Was the LNG Export Boom’s Wild Year

ByAshley Braun and Julie Dermansky

onDec 27, 2024 @ 03:00 PST

DeSmog reflects on some of the major moments in U.S. LNG policy, the courts, and protest in a turbulent year for this fossil fuel.

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A DeSmog Guide to How the World Changed in 2024

ByDeSmog Staff

onDec 26, 2024 @ 03:01 PST

Our editors and reporters weigh in on a year of seismic political events, and what they’re paying close attention to in 2025.

Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network

ByJustin Nobel

onDec 23, 2024 @ 03:00 PST

A new lawsuit alleges toxic, radioactive waste leaked into a PA family’s water well, uncovering a regulatory abyss for miles of fracking pipelines in the state.