This Entire Week Has Been Incredibly Depressing. But Then Today in New York I Saw a Young Woman Give People Hope.
Alexandria Villaseñor, a 14-year-old climate activist from New YorkSam Van Pykeren Outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, a group of about 25 students braced themselves against strong winds from Hurricane Dorian on Friday. Ranging in age from elementary to college students, they held signs that read “As the oceans rise, so will we” and…
Hurricane Dorian Could Slam 67 Toxic Sites. But Hundreds More Are at Risk.
A Superfund site in North Carolina in 2014.Chuck Burton/AP Ten days before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reversed an Obama administration directive that required infrastructure projects using federal funding—like roadways and stormwater infrastructure—to be designed to accommodate the rising sea levels associated…
Here’s a Better Look at Blue-Collar Wage Growth
Earlier today I noted that weekly blue-collar wages had increased a lot in August. Unfortunately, this is a series I don’t look at routinely, and I made a mistake I’ve criticized in others: looking at annualized monthly growth, which is often very noisy: On an annualized basis, blue-collar wages in August did indeed grow 7.7…
North Carolina Braces for Another Flood of Hog Poop
A hog operation with a lagoon in Sampson County, on North Carolina’s coastal plain.Matt Butler, Sound Rivers/Waterkeeper Alliance/Flicker It’s emerging as an annual rite: A massive hurricane roars across North Carolina and deposits epic amounts of water on the state’s coastal plain, home to a tangle of rivers intertwined with one of the globe’s most…
4 Automakers Sided With California Over Air Pollution. Now Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating Them.
Marcos Assis/Getty This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Justice Department has reportedly opened an antitrust investigation into four major automakers that struck a deal with California on vehicle-emissions standards in July, sidestepping opposition from the White House. The automakers―Ford Motor Co., BMW AG, Volkswagen…
The 2020 Dems Have No Serious Plan for Addressing the Single Biggest Source of US Pollution
CNN, Zuma The CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall made it clear that Democrats are encountering a much stronger appetite than ever before from their base for substantive action to address climate change. Even though the baseline for what constitutes a strong climate action plan has changed, there are still rifts among the candidates on the…