What Qualifies You to Become a Top Trump Energy Regulator? Telling Your Son to Deny Climate Change.
Bernard McNamee, President Trump’s nomination to join an energy industry regulatory body, gives a talk in February at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event.Energy and Policy Institute/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last February, Bernard McNamee stood behind the lectern in a crowded hotel ballroom in Austin, Texas, to deliver a speech on…
At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders didn’t have to remind the hundreds of activists, young people, policy wonks, and thousands of viewers online watching his climate change town hall Monday night of “the great crisis facing our planet and facing our humanity.” That was one of the central…
Trump Tries to Throw Gasoline on France’s Fuel Riots
Nicolas LiponnNurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A series of violent protests that have rattled France in recent weeks have caught the eye of Donald Trump. Earlier today, @realdonaldtrump retweeted a post from Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, which attributed the “riots in…
Why Energy Researchers Are Interested in a Tiny Wood-Eating Pest You’ve Never Heard Of
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Say hello to the gribbles. With their translucent bodies and circular black eyes, these minute marine crustaceans are like sheet ghosts—only crunchier—who burrow through pieces of wood gliding around the…
Some US Cities Are Much Better for Public Transit Than You Might Think. Others, Not So Much.
Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a new rail or bus line gets built in the United States, its mere opening is often cause for celebration among transit advocates.…
The Trump Administration’s Climate Report Left Out Reproductive Rights. Here’s What It Missed.
Angel Valentin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The big question of climate change is no longer why it’s happening (humans have a wild fossil-fuel-burning habit) nor when it’s going to happen (it is happening). These…