EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler blames the media for scaring people about climate change.

President Trump, after a 90-minute meeting with Britain’s Prince Charles, proclaims that climate change “changes both ways” and said that the United States has “among the cleanest climates.” 

The US Office of Special Counsel determines that the “MAGA” socks that then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wore to an official even at Mt. Rushmore violated the Hatch Act. 

The Democratic National Committee declines to host a climate debate among 2020 presidential hopefuls, and says that any candidate who attends other organizations’ climate debates will not be invited to future DNC events.

The Service Employees International Union, the country’s second-largest union, endorses the Green New Deal. 

215 of the world’s biggest corporations acknowledge that they face losses of $1 trillion in coming decades due to climate-related damages.

Colorado’s snowpack is 500 percent of normal. 

A heat wave broils northern India, where the temperature in Rajasthan reaches 123ºF. 

Carnival Corp. pays a $20 million fine for dumping sewage and plastics directly into the ocean. Carnival’s cruise ships emit ten times as much sulphur oxides (SOX) as all of Europe’s 260 million cars.

A computer error reveals that gas driller Range Resources and others paid $3 million to Pennsylvania families who said that their nosebleeds, fatigue, arsenic poisoning, and other ailments were caused by the company’s fracking operations.  

In 2018 the USDA’s Wildlife Services department killed 642 armadillos, 303 badgers, 338 black bears, 22,656 beavers, 1,002 bobcats, 68,186 coyotes, 617 falcons, 3,559 foxes, 1,397 marmots, 69 martins, 17,729 prairie dogs, 10,005 ravens, 3 roadrunners, 45 bighorn sheep, 1,823 swans, and 1 Western fence lizard. 

The last male Sumatran rhinodies. 

Under new regulations, people attempting to climb Mt. Blanc without the proper permits face two years in prison and a $335,000 fine.  

The expansion of offshore-wind energy in the US is hampered by a lack of trained workers. 

In Denmark, support for the far-right Peoples Party crumbles and the Social Democrats are set to take power after an election in which climate change played a major role. 

In order to save fuel and emissions, Scandinavian Airways will stop selling duty-free goods on its planes.

Swedish startup Cangaroo proposes deploying hundreds of pogo sticks in major US cities as a zero-carbon transportation option.