Sunday, August 17, 2025

Climate activists demand more from state lawmakers in wake of Supreme Court EPA ruling

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.

Democratic leaders push forward “weak” congressional panel instead of a Green New Deal

This new select committee is simply a revival of an old climate panel but has even less authority than its predecessor.
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Ocasio-Cortez & Markey unveil sweeping “Green New Deal” to radically shift U.S. off fossil...

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to mock the proposal on Wednesday, referring to it as a “green dream, or whatever they call it.”

US Forest Service plan to plant more than a billion trees limited by lack...

Not only that, but U.S. tree nurseries don’t have enough variety of species necessary to meet the goal.

EPA disbanded a clean air science panel. We met anyway – and here’s what...

The nongovernmental panel of experts found that particle pollution regulations aren’t protecting public health, but that's not the only worrying trend at EPA.

British Queen praises young climate activists in Christmas speech

“It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.”

Make the fossil fuel industry pay the $2 billion bushfire recovery fund

The apocalyptic scenes witnessed in Australia are entirely consistent with what climate scientists have been warning about for decades.

Labor Day 2050: How Global Warming Threatens Labor Productivity

Higher CO2 levels directly harm human cognition.

10 species climate change could push to extinction

Species are finding less food, more competition for limited resources, or inhospitable conditions to which they can’t adapt fast enough.

2016: A year in photos, from climate change devastation to the power of protests

The year ended with the election of a president and vice president who don't embrace the scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.