When solar and wind need a boost, nuclear might be the best option
Mar 6, 2018, 7:14 am By Nathanael JohnsonThe world is charging closer to the climate cliff, and the fact that we’ve failed to bring down…Scientists running for Congress are about to face a test in Texas.
Mar 5, 2018, 5:14 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe Trump administration’s reliance on alternative facts has inspired an unusual type of office…Striking teachers in West Virginia call for raising taxes on coal and gas.
Mar 5, 2018, 5:04 pm By Kate YoderThe 48th lowest-earning teachers in the country are eight days into a strike that demands a 5…Hear ye, hear ye, the Washington state carbon tax is dead. (Again.)
Mar 2, 2018, 6:56 pm By Zoya TeirsteinOn the first of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand and eighteen, the Evergreen State’s…Big surprise: Oil and coal win again in the Trump administration.
Mar 2, 2018, 4:57 pm By Justine CalmaToday in the current administration pandering to fossil fuel companies: more EPA rollbacks just as…A federal judge just opened the door to more climate lawsuits.
Mar 2, 2018, 4:11 pm By Nathanael JohnsonIn a ruling this week, Judge William Alsup said that plaintiffs can sue greenhouse-gas emitters in…Nor’easters are now just as dangerous as hurricanes
Mar 2, 2018, 12:53 pm By Eric HolthausOn Friday and Saturday, the winter storm now moving up the East Coast will unleash hurricane-force…Russian trolls shared some truly terrible climate change memes
Mar 1, 2018, 6:18 pm By Kate YoderIt should come as no surprise that Russian trolls — known for stoking the flames of America’s…Opposition to Trump’s offshore drilling plan transcends party lines.
Mar 1, 2018, 4:15 pm By Zoya TeirsteinIt turns out, most of us prefer our beaches nice and clean. That’s probably why a January proposal…We’ve lived through one wild year of Ryan Zinke.
Mar 1, 2018, 6:00 am By Zoya TeirsteinIt’s been 365 moons since the secretary of the Interior rode a horse (Tonto, thank you) to his…At EPA’s San Francisco hearing, hundreds defend the Clean Power Plan
Feb 28, 2018, 8:11 pm By Nathanael JohnsonHundreds of people gravitated to San Francisco Wednesday to ask the EPA not to repeal the Obama-era…The judge who Trump called a ‘hater’ just ruled in favor of the border wall.
Feb 28, 2018, 4:58 pm By Justine CalmaOn the campaign trail, President Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel was incapable of…Climate change will hit some key California crops.
Feb 28, 2018, 4:47 pm By Nathanael JohnsonA new review paper pulls together all the research on what farming will look like in California in…College Republicans have a climate change plan, even if their representatives don’t
Feb 28, 2018, 2:47 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe chasm between congressional Republicans and Democrats on green issues is widening, according to…On Thin Ice
Feb 28, 2018, 6:00 am By Eve AndrewsAt the end of October, in the thick of the #MeToo movement, I received a message written by five…Congressional Republicans got F’s on their environmental report cards
8:00pm By Rebecca LeberThis story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Scott Pruitt plans to close an EPA office that studies how chemicals harm children.
5:11pm By Kate YoderIs the EPA administrator trying to look like a movie villain? In the name of organizational…More than 100 cities around the globe get most of their electricity from renewables.
3:54pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe number of cities that run on at least 70 percent renewable electricity has more than doubled…Meet the teens schooling us on climate
7:00am By Eric HolthausGeneration Z — millennials’ younger brothers and sisters — are increasingly finding their…Scott Pruitt’s job is to protect the environment. God has other plans for him.
Mon 7:52pm By Rebecca LeberThis story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…
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