The EPA Hired GOP Oppo Firm Because it Was Sick of “Fake News”
Tom Williams/CQ, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Mother Jones first reported in December 2017 that the Environmental Protection Agency had hired a hyper-partisan GOP opposition research firm known for its aggressive tactics to handle the agency’s news-clipping work, the politically appointed flacks in the agency’s press office insisted the decision was about…
Antarctic Sea Ice Is “Astonishingly” Low This Melt Season
DeAgostini/Getty Images 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. Right now, on the shores of Antarctica, there’s open water crashing against the largest ice shelf in the world. The annual ice-free season has begun at the Ross Ice Shelf—a…
California Moves, Haltingly, Toward a Post-Lawn Future
Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the first Saturday of December in a northeast neighborhood of Fresno, California, Jeff Collins and his neighbors were putting up their Christmas decorations: strings of lights along identical…
Beto O’Rourke Says He’s “Supportive of the Concept” of a Green New Deal
The term surged into mainstream political discourse just two months ago when activists staged a protest in now–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, demanding that the incoming Democratic majority in the House champion a sweeping climate policy to zero out greenhouse gas emissions and combat worsening income inequality. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proposed a resolution to…
10 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Plastics Use in 2019
vovashevchuk/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Plastic has become perhaps the most demonized material of the last 12 months, as the scale of pollution in the oceans becomes increasingly apparent. With dire predictions that if nothing is done there…
It’s Time to Start Eating Roadkill
Jessica Matthews/The Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains…