Why Growing Veggies in the City Isn’t Just a Feel-Good Exercise
Olivier Polet/Zuma 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. Gotham Greens’ boxed lettuces have been popping up on the shelves of high-end grocers in New York and the Upper Midwest since 2009, and with names like “Windy City Crunch,”…
Heckler or Security Threat? To Scott Pruitt, They’re All the Same.
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On New Year’s Eve 2017, Scott Pruitt checked, “Visited nearly 30 states” on his tweeted list of year-end accomplishments. But now his very frequent and very expensive travel around and outside the United States has become a source of controversy as he has used his security needs…
The Green Movement Is Lily White. That’s a Problem.
sanjeri/Getty 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. It’s been 20 years since Esteban González Burchard took a trip to Chicago that changed his life. The asthma researcher had been to the Windy City before, so tourism wasn’t on…
Trump Snuck These Anti-Environment Measures Into His Infrastructure Plan
Ed Lallo/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The fact that EPA administrator Scott Pruitt sat several seats to the right of President Trump during his announcement of a $200 billion infrastructure plan on Monday was one clue that it was actually jam-packed with policies taking aim at environmental regulations. For instance, a substantial…
Californians Could Vote to Give Themselves the Measles
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This fall, Californians may have the opportunity to vote on a catch-all ballot initiative that would ban genetically modified organisms and get rid of school vaccination requirements. But that’s not all. The so-called California Clean Environment Initiative would also prohibit the use of 300 substances,…
Good News: There’s More Coverage of Climate Change. Bad News: It’s Because of Trump.
iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the good news: Coverage of climate change on the major broadcast networks increased substantially last year. The bad news? The vast majority of that coverage was driven by the policies and global warming denial of President Donald Trump. According to a new study…