The weather forecasts you see on TV or the severe storm alerts you get from your apps are powered by a federal science agency that’s in line for some of the most drastic cuts proposed by the Trump administration so […]
Trump, Musk come for the national weather service and NOAA Read More »
2024 is on track to become the hottest year since humans have been keeping track, beating out 2023. The extraordinary back-to-back record-breakers amplified disasters like heat waves, hurricanes, and torrential downpours around the world, claiming thousands of lives and causing
Unprecedented flooding in Spain shows how the climate crisis can roil societies. Read More »
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act stands as the single largest piece of legislation to address climate change in United States history. The IRA contains nearly $370 billion for programs like tax credits for more efficient appliances, building new battery plants,
Biden is scrambling to spend money on clean tech. Trump wants to stop it. Read More »
The COP29 conference — the latest round of international climate change talks, held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan — pushed past its Friday deadline and ended over the weekend with a new commitment to raise $300 billion a year by
COP29 summit on climate change: What did this year’s negotiations accomplish? Read More »
In her first run for president during the Democratic primary, Kamala Harris said “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking” during a 2019 town hall. Then, when she was running to be Joe Biden’s vice president in the
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s positions on fracking, explained Read More »
Climate change remains a major platform issue for Democrats, but you’d hardly know it listening to the hours of speeches at the Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago. Vice President Kamala Harris, accepting her party’s nomination for president, gave
Kamala Harris’s democratic convention speech didn’t mention climate change much. Why? Read More »
