Poll: Likely 2020 Voters Support Parts of Green New Deal, Despite Concerns Over the Cost
The question described the job as a position that would pay “at least $15 an hour, included healthcare benefits, and collective bargaining rights.” The surveyors added that Republicans warned the policy “would increase the national debt, endanger the long term health of our economy, and this policy will end up paying people who can’t contribute in…
This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem
Sprawl is made possible by highways. This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs. Leaving aside the emissions from the 1.1 billion trips Americans take per day (87 percent of which are taken in…
Donald Trump Still Doesn’t Understand Climate Change Science
Olivier Douliery/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I regret to you inform you that the president of the United States still does not understand climate change or the science behind our warming planet. On Sunday at a rally in Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced she’s running for president. In her…
Doomsday Postponed? The Takeaway From the Big New Antarctica Studies
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. There’s grim, mixed news out about Antarctica. Two new papers on melting Antarctic ice come just days after NASA scientists announced the discovery of a massive subterranean hole in West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier,…
House Climate Panel Democrats Got Nearly $200,000 in Fossil Fuel Industry Donations
“That’s $200,000 of potential conflict of interest on an issue of grave concern,” said David Turnbull, a spokesman for the coalition of groups that oversee the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. “If you’re going to be talking about the critical issue of climate change, you need to rid yourself of the influence of the fossil…
Critics of the Green New Deal Dismissed It as a Marketing Ploy. AOC Just Showed Them It’s For Real.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Green New Deal has officially graduated from a vision for mobilizing young activists to occupy Democratic lawmakers’ offices to a document attracting a number of powerful co-sponsors from both houses of Congress. Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has teamed up with a veteran of the…