Environment

“I got no funding of any kind. I work in coal and I care deeply about the environment.”

“The climate emergency is here. Democrats need to take the lead on confronting it.”

"At a time when climate change is the great environmental threat to the entire planet, it is sad and dangerous that Mr. Trump has nominated Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA."

"The U.S. has a relatively robust waste infrastructure, yet an estimated five times as much plastic pollution entered the oceans in 2016 than in 2010."

“Recycled plastic binders are ‘closing the loop’ by using plastic that had been used for something else and giving it new life, keeping the plastic out of our landfills and oceans.”

Public relations poses distinct threats to environmental movements, but activists are becoming more savvy and developing new forms of resistance.

The Trump administration will review the status of The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, one of the country’s most significant cultural sites.

“The Court of Justice has reaffirmed that protecting nature and people’s health takes precedence over the narrow economic interests of powerful multinationals..."

Officials say future climate action will require farsightedness, political courage, intelligent regulations and getting corporations on board.

Future generations will remember what the world did, or failed to do, in the face of South Asia’s devastating second wave of the virus. India and its neighbors desperately need more vaccines, oxygen, and other supplies, and it is in everyone else's interest to provide them as fast as possible.