Here’s Why Alaska Might Seriously Consider a Carbon Tax
Farah Nosh/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Alaska isn’t exactly the first state you’d expect to embrace a price on carbon. Yet the state legislature will likely be weighing one after the November elections. When carbon taxes…
Florida’s Getting Swamped by Deadly Red Algae
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) declared a state of emergency on Monday as a months-long red tide continues to spread throughout the region’s waters, killing hundreds of turtles and sickening people in coastal communities. The red tide―a harmful bloom of algae that…
Ryan Zinke Is Clueless About Wildfires
To be fair, Zinke acknowledged that “there’s no doubt the [fire] season is getting longer, the temperatures are getting hotter,” as the Sacramento Bee reported. But he didn’t dwell on those factors and instead argued for more logging and thinning of forests while taking another swing at environmental groups that he says stand in the…
114 Wildfires Are Scorching an Area Larger Than Delaware
The Holy Fire in CaliforniaChris Rusanowsky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As of Friday, there were 114 total wildfires across the country, consuming a combined area larger than the state of Delaware. To fight the blazes, 29,000 people have been deployed with an arsenal of 200 helicopters and 1,800 engines, according to…
Air Pollution Denial Could Become EPA Policy
Xinhua News Agency/GettyImages Contributor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Much of the Republican Party has long denied the science of climate change—that humans are causing the planet to warm. They’ve been less willing, historically, to deny…
A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…