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June 9, 2022
Liza Featherstone
Global Warming Is on the Local Ballot This Year
A new crop of primary challengers is mobilizing voters by pointing to Hurricane Sandy, Lake Mead, and other local climate concerns.
June 8, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Why Did Democrats and Solar Companies Just Kill a Climate Bill in New York?
The New York legislature failed to pass the Build Public Renewables Act before the session closed last week, despite a Democratic supermajority.
June 7, 2022
Melody Schreiber
There Is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Respond to Monkeypox
Monkeypox and Covid aren’t a zero-sum game. They’re more connected than they first appear. Acknowledging that can help us fight both.
June 3, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Republicans’ New Climate Plan Is Really an Old Plan for Destroying the Planet
Kevin McCarthy and Garrett Graves would like you to believe they’ve a six-point strategy for lowering emissions and fuel prices. Nope!
June 2, 2022
Kate Aronoff
If Democrats Can’t Pass Climate Legislation in New York, We’re All Doomed
The Build Public Renewables Act would be the first bill to pass acting on New York’s ambitious climate goals. Will Democrats kill it again?
May 31, 2022
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Kara Voght
How John Podesta and the Sunrise Movement Found Common Cause
The Democratic bigwig’s behind-the-scenes role guiding the next generation of climate activists
May 27, 2022
Kate Aronoff
“The Climate Wars Are Over” in Australia? Not Even Close.
The conservatives’ defeat is good news, but the incoming Labor Party’s policies show why climate activists can’t relax even under liberal governments.
May 26, 2022
Eleanor Cummins
The Baby Formula Shortage and the Rise of Rational Disaster Preppers
Disaster preparedness doesn’t need to be right-wing and individualistic. It does, however, need to be paired with policy.
May 25, 2022
Liza Featherstone
These Data Nerds Think They’ve Found the Climate Silver Bullet: Nonvoting Environmentalists
The Environmental Voter Project wants to turn infrequent voters who care about the environment into a force that can swing elections.
May 23, 2022
Melody Schreiber
How Rapid Reinfection Has Changed the Covid Fight
New variants can infect people who had Covid-19 as recently as a few months ago.
May 23, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Elon Musk Is the Newest Acolyte of the Right’s Critical Energy Theory Nonsense
Musk’s rant about ESG aligns with a growing conservative movement to denounce sustainable investment as a left-wing plot.
May 19, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Why Your Utility Company Sucks
Companies that run the electrical grid have long been accused of anti-competitive and abusive practices. Now a massive coalition of 235 organizations is pressuring the Federal Trade Commission to investigate them.
May 19, 2022
Aaron Regunberg
The Fed Is Neglecting Its Duty on Climate Change
Global warming is introducing unprecedented risk into the financial system. The Fed has the power to limit that risk. Instead, Jerome Powell is sitting on his hands.
May 17, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Buffalo Shooter and the Rise of Ecofascist Extremists
The shooter’s manifesto makes clear, climate denial and ecofascism are two sides of the same right-wing coin.
May 16, 2022
Eleanor Cummins
The Unfathomable Problem of Suicide as a Protest Tactic
The self-immolation of an environmental activist in Washington, D.C., revives an uncomfortable debate over the practice—and how we should talk about it.
May 12, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Why the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices Isn’t Working
It’s tempting to believe high prices are all about price gouging. But the reality is far wilder.
May 11, 2022
Glen Retief
South Africa’s Climate Change Struggles Offer a Grim View of Our Future
In a warming world, failing to invest in infrastructure will be deadly.
May 10, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Anti-China Bills Aren’t the Climate Solution Democrats Think They Are
Chuck Schumer’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act shows the perils of trying to pass climate policy to make America more “competitive.”
May 6, 2022
Liza Featherstone
Rich Countries Should Give Poor Countries Money out of Sheer Self-Interest
Climate justice is moral. But it’s also practical.
May 5, 2022
Raina Lipsitz
The Rise of the No-Compromise Climate Candidate
From New York to Texas, a new crop of candidates rejecting fossil fuel donations are calling for legislative action.
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