The Right Wing Supreme Court Readies to Help Destroy the Planet
SCOTUS AMONG US - It appears that Republicans on the Supreme Court are preparing to light our planet on fire
SCOTUS AMONG US - It appears that Republicans on the Supreme Court are preparing to light our planet on fire
THE ENVIRONMENT - The moment may be at hand for Californians to turn the tide on a sea of plastic waste that environmentalists say is destroying life in the ocean, contaminating drinking water and stuffing state landfills.
THE CLIMATE - The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.
CLIMATE WATCH - Climate change and global warming, which is the largest part of the ‘change’ aspect, is suddenly getting the kind of special treatment that’s reserved for national tragedies.
GREEN POLITICS - The color green has long been associated with envy, but increasingly it’s becoming a pigment of mass delusion.
CLIMATE WATCH - Ted Scambos, a polar scientist with 20 trips to Antarctica under his belt, makes a living trekking across glaciers,
CLIMATE WATCH - “I’m absolutely convinced we will get a low-carbon, no-carbon economy at some point in time.
CLIMATE WATCH - Australia’s federal election May 18th turned left with a new power broker named climate change.
CLIMATE WATCH - In case you have lingering doubts about the reality of human-caused global warming, hop on an airplane to parts of India or Pakistan and spend a few days.
GUEST COMMENTARY - This November, the Massachusetts electorate will vote on a ballot initiative that will have profound consequences:
CLIMATE WATCH - Woody biomass, or burning trees to produce renewable energy, is spreading beyond the shores of Europe, where it’s wildly popular and outpacing solar and wind.
CLIMATE WATCH - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and U.S. media, but did not.
CLIMATE WATCH - Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smokestacks, and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.
DRINKABLE WATER - The California Coastal Commission tonight rejected the proposed construction of a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, sealing the controversial project’s fate after more than 20 years of debate.
CLIMATE WATCH - The planet is wheezing, coughing and sputtering because of vicious attacks by worldwide droughts aided and abetted by global warming at only 1.2C above baseline.
CLIMATE POLITICS - As energy- and climate-related legislation passes through committees in the California legislature, some lawmakers are refusing to vote on bills critical to the state’s transition from fossil fuels.
CLIMATE WATCH - America’s western metropolises are thriving in the midst of the fiercest drought in over 1,000 years.
THE ENVIRONMENT - The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean,
CLIMATE WATCH - This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its starkest assessment of prospects for climate mitigation to date.
CLEAN ENERGY - Over 520 organizations told President Joe Biden on Wednesday to urgently "end the fossil fuel era" and commit to a rapid renewable energy transition rooted in justice and a more peaceful world.
CLIMATE WATCH - The United States is facing two grim prospects in 2022:
CLIMATE WATCH - It ought to be clear by now that President Biden’s commitment to combating climate change comes with some brutal caveats.
GLOBAL WARMING - The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms.
PLANNING WATCH - The new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could not have been starker.
GREEN ENERGY - It is no surprise that capitalism, a system that prioritizes private profit before all else, is destroying our planet.
CLIMATE WATCH - Recognizing the existential threat posed by climate change, California resolved to become carbon neutral by 2045,
CALIFORNIA GREEN - California’s energy mix was powered 97% by renewable energy on Sunday, April 3 at at 3:39 p.m.,
CLIMATE CHANGE - As I write this, it’s 83 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, DC, and I can’t help but long for those years when I was a kid, when spring felt like spring and seasons were demarcated.
CLIMATE WATCH - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released April 4, warns that global emissions must peak in just three years to stay below the 1.5°C warming ceiling for a livable future.
CLIMATE WATCH - Activists condemned Friday's announcement by the Biden administration that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume oil and gas lease sales on public lands as yet another betrayal of President Joe Biden's promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the climate emergency.
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