A specialized California license plate with an image of redwood trees, intended to raise money for the state park system, is canceled for lack of interest.

The U.S. Geological Survey deletes mention of climate change in a press release for a study on flood risks in coastal communities, claiming it “didn’t add anything.”

The pope gives President Trump a signed copy of Laudato Si, his encyclical on climate change.

Trump was reportedly enraged by a Time magazine cover, purportedly from the 1970s, with a story about how the climate was cooling. The document, given to him by his deputy national security advisor, K.T. McFarland, was a hoax. Trump’s aides intervened before he could tweet about it.

The Texas legislature okays the hunting of feral hogs from hot air balloons. 

The Trump administration releases its proposed budget for 2018. It cuts the EPA budget by nearly a third overall and its enforcement arm by 40 percent; shuts down programs to clean up the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound; and closes the Energy Star program, which informed consumers about the energy efficiency of appliances. Across the government, research and science programs are slashed, particularly those related to climate science. The budget also assumes the opening of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. 

Trump’s budget would allocate $9 million to the Chemical Safety Board—but only for the purpose of shutting the watchdog agency down. 

The rate of sea-level rise is now nearly three times what it was prior to 1990. 

Wind-turbine manufacturer Goldwind Americas is offering unemployed coal miners free job training for positions at its wind farms in Wyoming.

Maine governor Paul LePage is refusing to allow signs to be posted on state roads directing visitors to the new Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, the creation of which he opposed. 

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