Global Carbon Emissions Will Hit a Record High in 2019… Again.
Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States rose 3.4 percent in 2018, the largest increase in eight years. A rise in emissions from factories, trucks and planes contributed heavily to this increase.Scott Olson/Getty This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Global carbon emissions will hit…
The Supreme Court Is Tackling an Important Superfund Case and It’s—Messy
The U.S. Supreme Court building at sunset.Bill Clark/AP For decades, Anaconda Company Smelter operated an enormous copper smelting factory in Opportunity, Montana. And for more than seven decades, that factory spewed tons of toxic waste, mostly arsenic, into the community’s soil and water supply. In 1983, the EPA made Opportunity one of its Superfund sites, and…
Democrats from Congress Tried to Reassure World Leaders at the UN Climate Summit
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers assured world leaders at the United Nations climate conference in Madrid that the United States will continue to be a leader in combatting global climate change, despite backward steps by the Trump administration. “The…
The UN Secretary General Says the Real Climate Leaders Are the World’s Youth
Environment of IFEMA venue during the opening day of the UNFCCC COP25 climate conference on December 2, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Miquel Benitez/Getty This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, contrasted the “leadership” and “mobilization” shown by the…
What a Bloomberg Candidacy Could Mean for Climate
Democratic presidential candidate, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on November 25, 2019.Drew Angerer/Getty This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. This weekend, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg entered the presidential race in classic billionaire style: by buying up $30 million worth of TV…
How the Interior Department Got Swamped
“If you can imagine a target, this thing is shot full of holes,” Canter said of the administration’s pledge. Delaney Marsco, ethics counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, told HuffPost that even if these officials aren’t breaking those rules, their activity is “emblematic of the bigger revolving door problem in Washington,” in which industry insiders…