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Emily Atkin

Emily Atkin is a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of the climate newsletter Heated.

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March 28, 2017
Emily Atkin
The White House says it’s “not familiar” with the economic impacts of climate change.
March 28, 2017
Emily Atkin
The Paris Agreement Is Burning
Trump's executive order will all but ensure America fails to meet its goals under the international agreement to fight climate change.
March 27, 2017
Emily Atkin
Climate Deniers Are Winning—and Getting Greedy
With Trump in the White House, an anti-environmental conference in D.C. should have been a celebration. Instead, there was fear and loathing.
March 24, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s EPA transition leader just blasted Ivanka and Rex Tillerson over climate policy.
March 24, 2017
Emily Atkin
Rex Tillerson’s Other Transparency Problem
The secretary of state made news this week for dodging reporters. But a less-covered legal case raises even more serious questions about his penchant for secrecy.
March 23, 2017
Emily Atkin
The media has essentially stopped covering climate change.
March 22, 2017
Emily Atkin
Erin McPike’s long-awaited dispatch about Rex Tillerson’s Asia trip is here, and it’s exactly what Trump wants.
March 20, 2017
Emily Atkin
The media missed Stephen Hawking’s most important remark about Donald Trump—again.
March 17, 2017
Emily Atkin
This might be the strongest anti-fracking statement a Republican governor has ever made.
March 17, 2017
Emily Atkin
A coal lobbyist may become Scott Pruitt’s right-hand man at the EPA.
March 16, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s EPA Cuts “Literally Will Make People Sick”
Forget climate change. The agency won't even be able to adequately protect public health, officials say.
March 16, 2017
Emily Atkin
California officials are lurking at EPA headquarters, trying to poach its depressed employees.
March 16, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s budget is a middle finger to science.
March 15, 2017
Emily Atkin
A record number of House Republicans just vowed to fight climate change.
March 15, 2017
Emily Atkin
Air Pollution Denial Is the New Climate Denial
The latest right-wing lie is even crazier than the supposed global warming "hoax." But it's gaining influence in the Trump administration.
March 14, 2017
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt is doing an excellent job—at luring scientists into politics.
March 10, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s climate change battle with a bunch of kids is heating up.
March 9, 2017
Emily Atkin
Republicans’ War on Science Just Got Frighteningly Real
Two terrible bills that Obama would have vetoed are back in play, and they stand a very good chance of becoming law under Trump.
March 9, 2017
Emily Atkin
EPA chief Scott Pruitt just went full climate denier.
March 7, 2017
Emily Atkin
Another U.S. oil company wants Trump to stay in the Paris climate agreement.

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