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While a change in power in Washington will move climate change to the backburner, there will be opportunities to work with both parties on federal policies that are good for both the climate and ...
February 17 – Forward on Climate – An estimated 40,000 people rallied on the Mall and marched to the White House demanding action on Climate Change from President Barack Obama and the US Government. Particular focus was put on stopping the expansion of the Keystone Pipeline. [45]
By 2016, climate change had caused average temperatures in D.C. to rise 2 °F (1.1 °C) in a half-century, [1] more than the nationwide average. [2] Average summer temperatures have continued to rise: five out of six of the District's hottest recorded summers have occurred after 2010. [2]
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ShutDownDC is an activist organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.It was formed in 2019 as a coalition of activists concerned with the climate crisis; the group has since staged actions to create traffic congestion in Washington as a means of demanding the Green New Deal and other climate-related issues.
The House met on Thursday night to try and push a government funding bill through, but fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass the bill, making the possibility of a government ...
Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
President-elect Donald Trump is planning a blizzard of more than 25 executive orders and directives on his first day in office on Jan. 20 as he seeks to dramatically reshape U.S. government policy ...