If Politics Doesn’t Shape Your Beliefs About the Climate Crisis, What Does?
iStock/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Unless you’ve lost your home to a super-charged hurricane, evacuated from wildfire country, or survived some other kind of climate disaster, it’s not too hard to live as if we weren’t in the middle of a planetary crisis. Sure, scientists keep issuing dire warnings,…
Staffers Allege Misconduct at BLM’s Busiest Oil and Gas Office
iStock/Getty This story was originally published by High Country News and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early fall 2017, two Bureau of Land Management archaeologists drove to a Chevron oil and gas site in the dry grasslands of southeast New Mexico. The oil company had damaged a Native American archaeological site, and…
98 Percent of Their Island Is Underwater. Now Tropical Storm Barry Is Headed Their Way.
Children in the Biloxi-Chimacha-Choctaw tribe run over a bridge that crosses a bayou to get to their home on Isle de Jean Charles in 2012.Julie Dermansky/Corbis/Getty In the 19th century, when the Indian Removal Act became law, Native Americans were forced off of their land. In Louisiana, some fled to what is now Isle de…
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders Are Going to Introduce a Climate Emergency Resolution in Congress
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty On Tuesday, Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in the House, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Senate, will introduce a resolution asserting there is a climate emergency and demanding a wide-reaching mobilization to prepare for the consequences of climate change. They want to “restore the climate for future generations.”…
The Biggest Lie in Trump’s Environmental Speech Today
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma There were so many lies strung together in President Trump’s environmental speech from the White House on Monday, it’s a challenge to fact-check. “I’m glad you finally let people know what we’re doing,” Trump said, taking the podium from his Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, who was one of the…
The White House Denied Me Access to Trump’s Environmental Speech
Al Drago/Pool/CNP via ZUMA President Donald Trump will be delivering a speech on America’s environmental leadership on Monday afternoon, alongside EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, in which he’s expected to tout how much he’s done for clean air and clean water. It’s an unusual subject for him to give a speech about—Axios called it a “Javanka…