EPA removes climate change information from website
May 7, 2017
President Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt took down climate change information since they have decided the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) website needs to undergo changes, "which [involve] updating language to reflect the approach of new leadership," according to a news release."That ki...
A.S. will host annual Earth Fair with speaker series, music and giveaways
April 9, 2017
Associated Students (A.S.) will have their annual Earth Fair that will feature students, speakers, public sectors and more.Kira Paczkowski, a graduate assistant for A.S., said the Earth Fair is important to students because it provides them with the opportunity to learn about different organizations who want ...
Donald Trump plans to tackle immigration and climate change in his first 100 days
November 11, 2016
Donald Trump left millions of people stunned on Tuesday when he was announced as the president-elect of the United States as a result of the majority of electoral votes being in his favor. Trump states in his contract with the American voter that in his 100-day action plan, his priorities include...
Changing weather patterns is forecasting a dark future
April 22, 2014
It is not a well known fact that there have been several mass extinctions in the long history of our planet. The most famous of these (and the most recent as well) resulted in the deaths of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This came as an evolutionary benefit to mammals, particularly for our simian ancestors, where the extinc...
“Carbon Nation” opens in LA this past weekend
February 21, 2011
It's a whole new take on Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," sort of? I don't know how to explain it really, but ever since then I have been an eco-documentary junkie. If it has to do with the world and how to save it, how we're killing it or all of the above- shot in documentary style, I have probably...
State of the Union address doesn’t address climate change
January 27, 2011
I was, like the millions of you out there, glued to my television set during the State of the Union address earlier this week. But there was something missing from President Obama's speech. There was a word that he refrained from using and that word was climate. It was as if not mentioning it made...
You failed Climate 101 and the environment
October 21, 2010
You’re stupid, I’m stupid and apparently we are all stupid. Recently, Yale released a their study that found out the average American doesn’t know crap about climate change or global warming. And seriously, the findings almost made me embarrassed to be an American. (almost!) Some of the statisti...