These kids will see Trump in court
Twenty-one kids and climate scientist James Hansen were suing the Obama administration to take more aggressive action on climate. Now, the climate-change-denying 45th president has inherited the case.
US Court of Appeals rules against Arctic offshore oil drilling project, protects polar bears
In a Dec. 7 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against the Trump administration's approval of off-shore...
Trump’s bogus reason for bailing on the Paris Agreement
The administration’s lawyer thinks there might be legal ramifications if the U.S. stays in the Paris Climate Agreement but doesn’t cut emissions. No one who worked on the deal agrees.
Is U.S. climate policy killing capitalism?
It’s the Koch Brothers and the rest of Big Oil, and Big Gas, and Big Coal.
Germany blazes past US, setting new record for renewable energy production
Germany is the champion among industrialized economies in going green.
Your personal consumption choices can’t save the planet: We have to confront capitalism
To stave off disaster, we must transform the economic system driving climate change.
Dr. Robert Bullard: Houston’s “unrestrained capitalism” made Harvey “catastrophe waiting to happen”
While the National Hurricane Center is now calling Harvey the biggest rainstorm on record, scientists have been predicting for years that climate change would result in massive storms like Harvey.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 6, 2018
Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA, grassroots groups demand tech companies cut ties with ICE, a 20-foot-tall Trump blimp gets the okay in London, and more.
Can we afford a fair global climate transition?
The cost of transformation is not cheap, but consider the alternatives.
World Bank ramps up investments to fight climate crisis
"Climate change is an existential threat to the world's poorest and most vulnerable. These new targets demonstrate how seriously we are taking this issue, investing and mobilizing $200 billion over five years to combat climate change."