Environment

The move boosts renewable energy and could give the public more control over their energy.

The state oil and gas regulator can no longer issue fracking permits for oil and gas wells effective Oct. 1.

The findings challenge a longstanding assumption about conservation: that in order to protect biodiversity, people must be kept out.

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.

It is therefore worth taking a closer look at the backgrounds of these two individuals questioning mainstream climate science.

Water protectors answer a fundamental question: What happens if the pipeline gets completed?

Will the data be "a breakthrough in understanding the Arctic and climate system?"

“Today’s science-based decision helps ensure Washington’s promise of a livable planet for generations to come.”

“If countries make plans now to put society on a path of sustained and dramatic cuts to emissions from today, we can avoid ever-rising emissions and the dangerously accelerating impacts of climate change.”

This isn’t 1984. You can’t just throw scientific conclusions into the metaphorical memory hole.