Trump Administration Hampered Investigation Into Delayed Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief, Government Watchdog Finds

President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to tap a Colorado fracking executive to head the country’s energy policy prompted hope of a fossil-fuel boom for the state’s oil and gas industry and fears among environmentalists that climate change will not be taken seriously enough under his leadership. If confirmed by the U. S.

Just over a year into Donald Trump’s first term as President, immigration agents raided a meat processing plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, arresting 104 workers. It was the largest worksite raid in a decade. Two months later, 114 were arrested at a large-scale nursery in Sandusky, Ohio. The next year, immigration agents raided poultry plants in six towns in central Mississippi, arresting 680 workers in one day.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius is now “deader than a doornail”, with 2024 almost certain to be the first individual year above this threshold, climate scientists have gloomily concluded— even as world leaders gather for climate talks on how to remain within this boundary. Three of the five leading research groups monitoring global temperatures consider 2024 on track to be at least 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) hotter than pre-industrial times, underlining it as the warmest year on record, beating a mark set just last year.

There are a number of reasons why Musk's relationship with Trump might go south.

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