In 6 Western States, Voters Have a Chance to Fight Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Voters in six Western states—Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Washington—will head to the polls Nov. 6 with the chance to decide on hotly contested,…
The Role Harassment Plays in Climate Change Denial
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before Tom Steyer was a high-profile figure calling for the president’s impeachment, before the attacks directed at him escalated from name-calling to threats and violence, and before the president demeaned him as a “crazed & stumbling lunatic,” the Democratic donor was familiar with being a target for the…
In These 5 Races, Climate Change Has Taken Center Stage
Amelia Bates/Grist 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. Earlier this fall, the world’s top climate scientists gave humanity about 10 years to avoid a future that really sucks. With the midterm elections right around the corner, that warning means…
While Dedicating a Monument to Black Civil War Soldiers, Ryan Zinke Praises Robert E. Lee
“To attempt to link Lee’s achievements for the Confederacy which embraced White Supremacy to that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is not a slight oversight but a huge historical misappropriation that the descendants of enslaved Africans cannot accept or tolerate,” Malik Russell, an NAACP spokesman, said in an email. “Dr. King’s work united our…
The Midterms Could Spell the End of the Bipartisan Climate Caucus
David Greedy/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. In the past two years, dozens of Republican and Democratic members of the US House of Representatives have banded together in the name of tackling climate change. This bipartisan…
What’s Really Needed to Fight Climate Change Is Money, and Trump Will Not Contribute a Cent
Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under the 2015 Paris climate accord, 195 national governments committed to curbing carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. After the Trump administration…