One of the Largest Cities in California Has a Plan to Drastically Lower Its Temperature
Located in a semi-arid region with limited natural freshwater supplies, Long Beach relies on external water reserves and, despite record-breaking rainfalls in January 2017, water use prohibitions are still in effect. In an average year, the Long Beach Water Department (LBWD) obtains 40 percent of its water from imported sources and 53 percent from groundwater—which…
Leaked Documents Reveal the Trump Administration’s Plan to Sell off Our Public Lands
This story was originally published by The HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have repeatedly said they oppose selling off federal lands. It was over this very issue that Zinke—a former Montana congressman—resigned as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2016. And in a…
The Sierra Club’s New Video Attacks Ford for Playing Along with Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a video made public Wednesday, the Sierra Club denounced Ford Motor Company for lobbying the Trump administration and “#PollutingPruitt” to roll back vehicle efficiency and and emission standards. The environmental organization timed the airing of their new video with the D.C. Auto Show, at which Ford isn’t showing…
Trump Just Announced a Plan that Could Cripple the Solar Industry
Olivier Douliery/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite President Trump’s best efforts in 2017 to make fossil fuels great again, solar has kept booming. But now comes bad news: Trump is slapping a 30 percent tariff on imported panels, a move that experts say is poised to hurt an industry that…
Don’t Let Anyone Fool You: There ARE Environmental Conservatives
Monica Jorge/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Todd Tanner has a pretty sweet offer for his fellow Montanans: a new shotgun in exchange for science-based evidence that he’s wrong about climate change. The conservationist uses…
Trump’s Worst Nightmare: A Cross-Border, US-Mexico Bikeshare
roibu/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the debate about President Donald Trump’s long-promised wall along the U.S. Mexico border drags on, plans for an entirely different kind of infrastructure project are also proceeding: The cities of El…