Environment

The USPS announces it will make 40 percent of its new mail trucks battery electric, up from the agency’s plans for 10 percent earlier this year.

War, inflation, geopolitical rivalry, and soaring world temperatures.

“Education, the implementation of polar bear-proof methods of waste storage, law enforcement and the provision of adequate resources at the community level are required to mitigate this potentially increasing problem.”

“Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”

 “At best, this plan will deliver peak carbon emissions in 2019, but with its plan for unlimited air travel growth, non-carbon aviation emissions will rise, and will persist all the way to 2050,” Dr. Alex Chapman from the New Economics Foundation said, as The Independent reported."

We plan our days around getting from one air-conditioned place to another.”

"This is an important moment. There is probably nothing more important for our nation and our world than for the United States to drive a bold, energetic transition in its energy economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy."

“This is a big step forward for climate smart ports and a clean energy future for every community.”

Men, women and children in the Horn of Africa whose lives are being ravaged by drought need “the world’s attention and action, now.”

With the federal government’s ability to tackle climate change curtailed by the Supreme Court, activists are pressing climate-friendly state lawmakers to step up.