David Schechter

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | David Schechter |Samantha Wender

The Trump EPA's rollbacks and air quality Washington — Since President Trump took office in January, his Environmental Protection Agency has been both slashing and reconsidering dozens of rules designed to fight pollution. The White House is also firing many of the EPA staffers who enforce the rules that remain. This week, CBS News visited a Houston neighborhood that's near an NRG Energy coal-fired power plant, the largest in Texas.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | David Schechter

New York — In the heart of Manhattan, four stories below ground, the iconic Eleven Madison skyscraper is being air-conditioned using ice. "There's about 500,000 pounds of ice created every night," said Holly Paeper, president of Trane Technologies, the company responsible for installing the system it calls an ice battery. "And to put that into context, think about three city buses full of ice cubes." The ice battery system freezes water at night when the cost of electricity is low.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Schechter |Seiji Yamashita |Tracy Wholf |Sean Herbert

More carbon dioxide — released from cars, factories and power plants — was present in the atmosphere last year than ever before in recorded history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest report. The federal agency has been monitoring CO2 levels since the 1960s. It's part of the work started by Professor Ralph Keeling's father, Professor Charles David Keeling, who first documented the building up of CO2 in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | David Schechter |Tracy Wholf

More carbon dioxide — released from cars, factories and power plants — was present in the atmosphere last year than ever before in recorded history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest report. The federal agency has been monitoring CO2 levels since the 1960s. It's part of the work started by Professor Ralph Keeling's father, Professor Charles David Keeling, who first documented the building up of CO2 in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

2 months ago | cbsnews.com | David Schechter

Fly fishing industry in California threatened by warming rivers California is one of the top fly-fishing destinations of the nation, especially when it comes to wild trout. But as climate change continues to warm our rivers, the pressure is growing on California's cold-water fish. The phenomenon is impacting freshwater streams across the country, including the nation's designated "home" for American fly fishing. "This is ground zero, right here.