Vote: What Do You Want to Know About the Green Deal?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a press conference announcing the Green New Deal.Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we asked Mother Jones readers what they wanted to know about the Green New Deal. We received more than a hundred questions on the climate resolution, ranging from its cost…
In Schools All Over the Country, America’s Kids Are Exposed to Water Tainted by Toxic Lead
Edwin Remsberg/VW Pics via ZUMA Wire 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. When Shakima Thomas came home one day last October, she found a piece of paper wedged in her door telling her the water in her…
Microplastic Pollution Is Absolutely Everywhere
Bernd Wüstneck/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published in The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Microplastic pollution spans the world, according to new studies showing contamination in the UK’s lake and rivers, in groundwater in the US and along the Yangtze river…
US and Canadian Oil Production Push the Planet’s Climate Goals Out of Reach
Bayne Stanley/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A surge in US and Canadian oil production over the last decade has added the equivalent of “one Russia or one Saudi Arabia” to the markets—pushing the…
Here’s Why America Is Dumping Its Trash in Poorer Countries
But as its pace of manufacturing slowed and labor costs rose, Beijing’s desire to be the world’s recycling bin rapidly diminished. Much of the imported recyclable waste was so contaminated that it could not be recycled anyway, Chinese officials complained, and piles of imported waste were ending up in China’s landfills and polluting the country’s…
Five Things a Democratic President Could Do By Declaring a National Emergency Over Climate Change
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over and over, President Donald Trump has done things no sitting president would dare do. In February, the country again entered new terrain when he declared a national emergency, effectively unlocking billions of dollars in emergency funding for his border wall.…