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Greta Thunberg And Other Youth Climate Activists Speak Before The U S Congressional Select Committee On The Climate Crisis
Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, joined other youth leaders in the US climate movement to speak to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on Wednesday morning.
It Used To Be Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park, Montana. At St. Mary’s on the east side of Glacier National Park we started up the Going-to-the-Sun-Road, that winds for fifty miles through steep, rugged terrain and ends on the west side of the park at West Glacier.
Natural Gas Is Not A Clean Burning Renewable Fuel
Natural gas is not a bridge to a clean, renewable economy. Its a dead end to a dangerously high level of carbon in the atmosphere.
The US Conference of Mayors Votes to Support Policies to Reduce Climate Change and Sharply Rebukes the Trump White House for its Failures
Honolulu, Hawaii – The US Conference of Mayors, representing 1,408 cities across the country, met in Honolulu last week and expressed broad support for local and national measures to address the dangers from the Climate Crisis.
Small Island Countries in the World’s Oceans are Threatened by Rising Seas
Eleuthera, Bahamas – Throughout the world’s vast oceans, small island countries from the Bahamas, 48 miles off the east coast of Florida, to Samoa in the South Pacific, face an existential threat from sea level rise caused by the Climate Crisis.
U.N. Climate Conference Convened in Poland Against a Backdrop of Dire Warnings of Runaway Climate Change
During the year 2018, the nations of the world were on track to emit a record 37.1 gigatons of dangerous green house gases, equal in weight to 100,000 Empire State Buildings.
Republicans Open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to Dangers of Oil Drilling
A little known provision of the December 2017 Republican tax bill opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to the dangers of oil and gas drilling.
Governor DeSantis Announces Policies to Protect Florida’s Environment but Fails to Address Climate Change as the Root Cause
Newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis recently issued an executive order to address the many serious environmental problems that directly threaten Florida.
And a Child Shall Lead Them – Mitch McConnell and the Green New Deal
Mitch McConnell, powerful Senate majority leader and fearless Washington brawler, ran out of his D.C. senate office in a total panic when a group of rosy cheeked school children from his home state of Kentucky showed up to ask him about climate change and the Green New Deal.
A Green New Deal Is What’s Urgently Needed
When congresswoman, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, rolled out the Green New Deal, they made a bold proposal to transform the U.S. economy over the next few decades by promoting renewable energy technology and industry, energy efficiency in new and existing buildings, an infrastructure bill that addresses climate change, zero emissions vehicles and an overhauled clean and affordable public transportation system.