Jay Inslee Calls for the Nuclear Option to Combat Climate Change
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) launched his 2020 presidential campaign at a local solar energy company in Seattle on March 1.Paul Christian Gordon/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democratic presidential candidate focused on climate change, argued Sunday that the Senate will have to abolish the…
Microplastic Pollution Is Absolutely Everywhere
Bernd Wüstneck/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published in The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Microplastic pollution spans the world, according to new studies showing contamination in the UK’s lake and rivers, in groundwater in the US and along the Yangtze river…
US and Canadian Oil Production Push the Planet’s Climate Goals Out of Reach
Bayne Stanley/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A surge in US and Canadian oil production over the last decade has added the equivalent of “one Russia or one Saudi Arabia” to the markets—pushing the…
Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Flock to South by Southwest Festival
Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Presidential hopefuls are lining up in Austin, Texas, this weekend to appear at the trendy tech gathering known as South by Southwest (SXSW). The yearly weekend festival that features new technology, music, and film premieres attracts a young and liberal crowd that candidates…
Are Democrats Moving Dangerously to the Left?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the New York Times today, Jonathan Martin and Sydney Ember write: Bernie Sanders-Style Politics Are Defining 2020 Race, Unnerving Moderates Two months into the presidential campaign, the leading Democratic contenders have largely broken with consensus-driven politics and embraced leftist ideas on health care, taxes,…
Trump Budget Plans to Give $100 Million to Program for Women that Ivanka Launched
Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Associated Press is reporting that the 2020 Trump budget will include $100 million for the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, a government project that was launched last month with Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and adviser, in charge. On…