If it seemed like June was a little hotter than usual, it’s because it was. In fact, it was hotter than it’s ever been in North America. The Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Wednesday that the average surface air temperature in North America last month exceeded that of any …
Read More »How Michael Regan Plans to Fix the EPA
One by one, the witnesses described the stench, a rancid odor that befouled the air and ruined your clothes, made you close your windows in the summer and run from your car into church on Sundays lest you bring that smell into God’s house. They talked about undrinkable tap water …
Read More »Why 'All We Can Save' Will Make You Feel Hopeful About the Climate Crisis
It’s hard to read the news these days, as ever-deadlier fires rage in the west and more intense hurricanes batter the Gulf Coast, and our president shrugs his shoulders and says “It’s going to get cooler, you’ll see.” Which is why it’s a small miracle that I read something about …
Read More »Op-Ed: Big Insurance Is Climate's Quiet Killer
Climate and social justice advocates have long worked to connect the dots between flows of big money and the main players propping up the fossil fuel economy. As the climate movement pulls at the threads of old power structures, it’s found that the villains of the climate crisis are a …
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