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Justine Calma

Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

Senior Science Reporter

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    Justine Calma
    Donald Trump’s EPA pick ‘believe[s] climate change is real.’

    “Emissions of greenhouse gasses trap heat,” Lee Zeldin, said during today’s Senate confirmation hearing when pressed about climate science. Whether he’ll take action is another issue.

    Zeldin accepted over $269,000 from the oil and gas industry while running for Congress, and has said he’ll work to “unleash US energy dominance” and “make America the AI capital of the world” while leading the Environmental Protection Agency.

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    Justine Calma
    Honolulu will take fossil fuel companies to court over misinformation.

    The US Supreme Court denied petitions from fossil fuel companies seeking to thwart a climate lawsuit filed against them — allowing the case to go to trial.

    The city and county of Honolulu filed suit against Sunoco, Shell, and other oil companies accusing them of a “coordinated, multi-front effort to conceal and deny their own knowledge” of threats their products pose through climate change.

    Justine Calma
    Justine Calma
    A wildfire tracking app topped App Store charts.

    Watch Duty: Wildfire Maps, a crowdsourced app that tracks nearby fires, evacuation notices, and other key information, was more popular than ChatGPT, Threads, and Temu today as wildfires burn out of control across Southern California.

    Top iPhone apps chart showing Watch Duty in the number one slot.
    Screenshot: App Store