The fight for a seat on the Railroad Commission of Texas may just be the most important environmental election in the country.
Green energy investment comes with a steep price tag. So too does business as usual.
The mishandling of COVID-19 has unfolded just as the response to global warming has — only at a faster clip.
Opponents of Measure A, led by the real estate industry, have spent $1.72 million to defeat the anti-sprawl ballot initiative.
The presidential candidate has staked out a political stance between incremental change and panic over our warming planet.
Climate concerns that have helped drive coal to near-obsolescence have contributed to a recent slump in the Kentucky senator’s popularity.
A growing body of research indicates that many of the solutions to the climate crisis and economic inequality are the same.
The media’s erasing of women of color from the climate activism narrative is dangerous for the movement, says one young activist.
As experts advocate for “managed retreat” from eroding coastlines, communities are pushing back.
California agriculture will have no silver bullets in a fight to survive global warming.
Bay Area seventh grader helps to organize San Francisco student protests as part of Friday’s “Climate Strike.”
“Those who would shackle us to the pessimistic view of inaction doom us to sacrifice,” says Washington’s governor. “They doom us to sacrificing our clean air and to sacrificing the ability to walk in a forest that’s not charred down.”
A new state report says increasing automobile traffic is derailing California’s climate goals.
After two of the most devastating fires in California history, environmentalists and urban planners question why Los Angeles County, or any county in the state, would approve wilderness community developments.
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So far, Gavin Newsom has only affirmed his support for a ban on hydrofracturing, although activists are hopeful he will be more aggressive on environmental issues than Jerry Brown.
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Much of the recent gathering in San Francisco involved corporate and government backslapping — noble but too easily mocked.
Environmentalists are hoping that a trial, due to begin October 29, will explain to the public how the government has known for decades about the dangers of fossil fuels but failed to act on this knowledge.
“Those of us who’ve been working on environmental justice and climate justice,” says Mustafa Ali, “understand we’re talking about housing, transportation, the environment, public health and jobs.”
Research shows that global warming will hit the American economy hard, particularly in the South.
Many scientists assert that this summer’s intense weather is being fueled by climate change. One of the most prominent is Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, who says the connection between the two is like “the link between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.”