Environment

With the help of the Koch Brothers, Trump and the Republican Party have “moved in the opposite direction from virtually the rest of the world.”

“It goes beyond the financial. This property was our hope, our dream, our future, our children’s future."

Hard work and persistence can pull us back from the brink just as greed and indifference can push us toward it.

It’s at this level that people must focus much of their attention, to outweigh the influence of fossil fuel companies, find novel ways to fund decarbonisation and steer the economic recovery from COVID-19 towards a low-carbon future.

“It is clearly time to reduce these emissions. They are easy to fix. We have the technology to fix them.”

As 26,000 scientists gather in San Francisco for an annual conference, some rally against the president-elect’s antienvironmental policies.

"It's really important to prioritize reduction of air pollution levels to improve respiratory health."

“My hope is that they will thoroughly investigate their emissions and their impact on the community and draw what we believe to be an inescapable conclusion that Oxbow is an eminent danger to the life and health of people in Port Arthur and southeast Texas.”

Across the country, voters will weigh in on ballot measures to decide issues like wolf reintroduction, taxes on oil companies, and renewable energy standards.

One expert called it a “systematic deceptive marketing campaign designed to interfere with the solution that is necessary to respond to the climate emergency: stopping fossil fuel production.”