World’s Biggest Investor Asks Oil Giants to Reveal Their Carbon Emissions
A man walks past an oil rig during sunset in Huntington Beach, California. November 16, 2020. Ronen Tivony/SOPA/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…
Why Won’t Joe Biden Let Ethanol Die Already?
Kotyński 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.President Joe Biden campaigned on an ambitious plan to tackle climate change with a “clean energy revolution,” including incentives to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of electric ones. The…
Inside Ikea’s Ambitious Plan To Make Cheap Furniture Last Forever
(Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Huffpost; Photos: Getty, Ikea) 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 article was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Ikea store in Queens, New York,…
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Convinced Americans to Love Gas Stoves
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.In early 2020, Wilson Truong posted on the NextDoor social media platform—where users can send messages to a group in their neighborhood—in a Culver City, California, community. Writing as if he…
Damage Wrought by Trump’s Border Wall “Will Not Ever Be Remediated or Mitigated”
Roberto E. Rosales/ Albuquerque Journal/ 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 is the first of three installments published by High Country News and Arizona Public Media and is reproduced here as part of the…
American Cities Are Seriously Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints
grynold/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.How much do you reckon your city contributes to climate change? If you added up the emissions from all the homes, businesses, vehicles, industries—everything that makes a city a city—what…