Wednesday, April 23, 2025

50+ mayors vow to ‘vigorously resist’ EPA’s Fuel Efficiency rollback

"We strongly urge the auto industry to join us, and to use its influence with the Administration to ensure that these standards remain in place."

Climate change likely drove our ancestors to extinction, study finds

“Climate change made Homo vulnerable and hapless in the past, and this may just be happening again.”

How a national infrastructure program would protect Americans from hurricanes

“I don’t subscribe to the idea that infrastructure is just bridges and roads.”

2019 in review: Endless Trump and the rise of radical environmental action

In terms of raising awareness, despite powerful people from the U.S. president on down denying its reality, more and more people throughout the world are taking action to force their governments to confront it.

Fire and flood

This sense of the human place in the fabric of nature – that there may be a deep connection between inner and outer weather – is starting to seem a thing of the past.

How Biden can do more Than just restore Trump’s environmental rollbacks

President-elect Joseph R. Biden has indicated that he’ll quickly roll back the rollbacks as soon as he’s inaugurated. Yet a reset is not enough.

Dance, dance revolution: Glasgow nightclub launches system to power venue with dancing

“If we can make it work here in this environment, there’s no reason why we can’t take it to other venues, not just here in Scotland and the UK, across Europe and further afield.”

Footage of Exxon lobbyist increases pressure on Biden to end fossil fuel subsidies

“It’s time for President Biden to pick a side: Exxon or the American majority?”

In a changing climate, access to cooling is a human right

And each government building, library, or church that opens its doors and offers a cooled space for those who need it, contributes to a growing message that cooling is in fact a human right.

Locals and tribes march together to oppose construction of natural gas plant

The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.