Cheaper Housing or More Homelessness? Your Call, California.
Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The primary reason people become unhoused in California is unaffordable housing, including due to loss of income, according to a study released Tuesday. Around a third of the United States’ unhoused population—some 170,000 people—lives in the state. The…
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The GPS coordinates weren’t especially helpful last May as we drove across the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Cell service was spotty in the vast expanse of land crosshatched with unpaved roads identified on the map only…
Think Globally, Build Like Hell Locally
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. In March, “Save Lafayette” finally lost a long-running battle to stop a 315-unit housing complex from being built in Lafayette, a small…
The Green Movement’s Best Weapon Has Become a Problem
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, when runaway development with little study or oversight led to the draining of the Everglades,…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Saga Is a Very Public Example of a National Crisis
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For more than a month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been on medical leave, with no indication of when she might return to her powerful seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.…
Sorry California, Melting Snowpacks to Unleash More Epic Floods
A CalTrans pickup truck driving through flooding on Highway 43 in the Central Valley during a winter storm in Tulare County near Allensworth, California.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Is this the “Big One”? Sometime in January, as a string of “atmospheric rivers” from deep in the South Pacific pummeled California, that query began hitting my phone in…