Ohio Staters Grapple With Bill That Stifles Climate Speech
State Sen. Jerry Cirino, the bill’s lead sponsor, on the Ohio Senate floor.Ohio Senate This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one…
Montana GOP Just Passed an Aggressive Law to Thwart Climate Science
A helicopter crew battles a wildfire in northwestern Montana, August 2022. Don & Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental…
She Was on the Front Lines of Whale Conservation. Now She’s on the Front Lines of War.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first time I spoke with Olga Shpak, I made the mistake of beginning as I often do when interviewing researchers: by asking for some basic biographical information. “I used to be a scientist,” she said, not sounding bitter,…
Alaskan Fishing Boats Are Poaching Threatened Canadian Salmon
A sockeye (red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka) in British Columbia’s Horsefly River.Mark Conlin/VW PICS/UIG/Getty This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. American fishing boats catching threatened Canadian salmon was flagged as a top concern for federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray before meeting with the US ambassador…
Texas Is “Fixing” Its Power Grid in the Most Texas Way Possible
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ever since brutal winter storms blacked out much of Texas and killed hundreds of residents in February 2021, the state’s government has constantly talked…
Oregon Bill Could Deem Some Environmental Protests “Domestic Terrorism”
Climate change protesters hold a rally during an extreme heatwave on August 13, 2021 in Portland, Oregon.Nathan Howard/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A bill that could stifle environmental protests has emerged in an unlikely place: the Democrat-controlled Oregon state legislature. Lawmakers in the Beaver State…