A 23-Year-Old Went on Fox News and Schooled Their Hosts on the Green New Deal
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jack Vandeleuv’s Thursday night went like this: He went to a diner in Riverside, Missouri, ordered himself a vegetarian omelet and served up arguably the most clear-eyed defense of the Green New Deal yet broadcast on Fox News. In a…
The New Governor of Florida Is Not the Environmental Disaster Everyone Thought He’d Be
Ron DeSantis in the Florida EvergladesWilfredo Lee/AP On paper, Ron DeSantis looked like an environmental disaster waiting to happen. During his 2018 campaign to be Florida’s next governor, the Republican candidate dodged questions about whether humans are causing climate change and he became a clear favorite of President Donald Trump. He also offered a less-than-stellar history on environmental…
Climate Activists Have Their Next Target: The DNC Debates
Joe Raedle, Getty Images No city better embodies the challenges of climate change than the setting for the first Democratic debate in June. At least 10 candidates who meet the Democratic National Committee’s set of polling and grassroots fundraising criteria will take the stage in Miami, a city that will face the threat of encroaching…
Can Jay Inslee Make Climate Change More Than a Campaign Talking Point?
Matt Chase Blink and you would have missed the most substantial reference to climate change in the three 2016 presidential debates. “I think the science is real,” Hillary Clinton affirmed in her first showdown with Donald Trump, not because she was asked about it, but because she wanted to highlight yet another contrast between them.…
Critics of the Green New Deal Rail Against Socialism. We’ve Seen This Before.
NurPhoto/Getty Images This story was originally published by High Country News and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Green New Deal and its proponents aim to tackle the intertwined issues of social and environmental justice in our age of anthropogenic climate change. To accomplish this, they believe they must deploy the federal government, since it…
This Faith Leader Sees Climate Change as a Moral Emergency
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond (right) joins her mother, Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond (left), in song and prayer during a women’s conference at the Jubilee Christian Church in Boston on May 5, 2017. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and…