Kate Aronoff

2 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Kate Aronoff

As one of the century’s stupidest, most high-profile feuds escalated yesterday, President Donald Trump at one point threatened to cancel the U.S. government’s expansive contracts with SpaceX and Tesla, companies that are both at least nominally headed by ketamine enthusiast and Grimes-ex Elon Musk. In response, Musk threatened to “immediately” decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, currently America’s only means of shuttling astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Kate Aronoff

Earlier this week, the Department of Energy announced that it was clawing back $3.7 billion that its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations had awarded, during Joe Biden’s administration, to 24 projects. The funds were rescinded, according to the department, after “a thorough and individualized financial review.” On its own, this news isn’t all that remarkable.

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Kate Aronoff

In April 2023, a report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology warned that “when it comes to assessing the future risks from extreme weather, America is flying blind.” Two years on, it would be overly generous to say that America is still flying at all on that front.

4 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Kate Aronoff

A study released on Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization found an 80 percent likelihood that at least one of the next five years will break new heat records, surpassing 2024 to become the hottest year ever recorded. The National Weather Service has predicted that this summer will be among the hottest ever in the United States. The Trump administration, meanwhile, is taking a chain saw to programs that keep people alive when temperatures soar.

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kate Aronoff

A study released on Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization found an 80 percent likelihood that at least one of the next five years will break new heat records, surpassing 2024 to become the hottest year ever recorded. The National Weather Service has predicted that this summer will be among the hottest ever in the United States. The Trump administration, meanwhile, is taking a chain saw to programs that keep people alive when temperatures soar.