Biden Calls to Cut US Emissions in Half by 2030
April 22, 2021, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, in the East Room of the White House, on Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Washington (Credit Image: © Al Drago/CNP via ZUMA Wire) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the…
17 Young People on the Moment the Climate Crisis Became Real for Them
Liz Coulbourn/Teen Vogue Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story originally appeared in Teen Vogue and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Watching…
“A Great Deception”: Oil Giants Ripped for Greenwashing
An ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Barry Lewis/InPictures/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have…
New Coal Projects Have Gotten Super Expensive to Finance
Clouds of steam rise from the RWE coal-fired power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Eschweiler. March 20, 2021.Roberto Pfeil/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part…
Here’s What a Civilian Climate Corps Might Look Like
New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps.Uncredited/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a…
Leaked Calls Reveal ALEC’s Secret Plan to Thwart Biden on Climate
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Republican efforts to stall President Joe Biden’s climate agenda are slowly beginning to take shape. In March, a coalition of 12 Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging Biden’s executive order creating a working group to establish a metric for the “social…