Climate advocates join Biden in saying Inflation Reduction Act is must-pass bill
Climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore stressed that the funding in the bill would be vital to fighting climate change.
By Oliver Willis - August 01, 2022Climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore stressed that the funding in the bill would be vital to fighting climate change.
By Oliver Willis - August 01, 2022New Biden administration guidelines could help provide cheaper solar energy to 4.5 million families.
By Oliver Willis - July 28, 2022The Republican nominee has claimed high gas prices have nothing to do with ‘greedy oil executives.’
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2022Experts say planting trees and protecting old-growth forests are necessary parts of the fight against global climate change.
By Oliver Willis - July 27, 2022Meteorologists say models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating rainstorms, hurricanes, heat waves and other events.
By Associated Press - July 10, 2022‘We’re not seeing a whole lot of common sense in his policies. He tends to toss aside serious ideas about climate change as just left-wing politics,’ said Sierra Club Florida political director Luigi Guadarrama.
By Adrian Cole - July 06, 2022Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz claims without evidence that environmental regulations are responsible for oil companies’ high prices.
By Josh Israel - June 23, 2022United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that ‘fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2022The Natural Resources Defense Council said new efficiency standards for furnaces ‘will significantly lower energy bills each year and slash dangerous climate-warming emissions across the nation.’
By Oliver Willis - June 13, 2022Diesel pollution has been associated with cardiac and respiratory illnesses as well as greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
By Oliver Willis - May 24, 2022A new poll shows strong support for a compromise Build Back Better package.
By Josh Israel - May 04, 2022‘We can’t afford to deny this reality and the urgency of what is happening to our state,’ said Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.
By Associated Press - April 24, 2022‘There are some amazing success stories,’ said Stanford University environmental scientist Rob Jackson.
By Associated Press - April 23, 2022Climate experts say forests play a vital role in capturing carbon gases that contribute to climate change.
By Oliver Willis - April 22, 2022The funds will be used to help pay for projects that will help tribes adapt to climate change, as well as pay for the management of ocean and coastal assets.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2022The Environmental Protection Agency would see its largest budget in 51 years if President Joe Biden’s proposed budget is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2022The Biden administration’s offshore wind lease sale is breaking records.
By Oliver Willis - February 25, 2022The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could ‘eviscerate the EPA’s ability to implement the Clean Air Act to protect our environment.’
By Sarah Lipton-Lubet - February 25, 2022Republican lawmakers are outraged that the special presidential envoy for climate said war is harmful to people and to the planet.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022China currently produces 80% of all rare-earth metals sold worldwide.
By Oliver Willis - February 22, 2022The White House’s infrastructure plan gave states guidance to invest in eco-friendly projects.
By Oliver Willis - February 10, 2022The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.
By Oliver Willis - January 26, 2022Global temperatures are nearly 2 degrees warmer on average than they were 140 years ago, according to two U.S. science agencies.
By Associated Press - January 17, 2022Republicans blame President Joe Biden for tree shortages and ignore the climate change that is fueling the problem.
By Josh Israel - December 13, 2021Every House Republican voted against President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2021“Saving the planet isn’t a partisan issue,” former President Barack Obama said.
By Associated Press - November 08, 2021Congressional Republicans are mocking the concept of ‘tree equity,’ which would fund a wave of new jobs and plant trees in neighborhoods without any.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2021They also support many of the policies that Democratic lawmakers are hoping to add to the bill.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2021The White House estimates the $1.75 trillion jobs framework would reduce the deficit.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2021Lawmakers and faith leaders spoke of the religious grounds for eradicating child poverty, expanding health care coverage, and addressing the climate crisis.
By Josh Axelrod - October 21, 2021