Americans Vote for Powerful Check on Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda
Americans from coast-to-coast have voted for change, rejecting President Trump’s pro-polluter politics.
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GOP’s Climate Deniers Feeling the Heat
At a recent forum in Washington, leading climate science skeptic Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told attendees that one of the “dangers” of the Green New Deal is that “it’s creating a very large space for a certain class of people, many of them in the Republican…
Climate Change and the 2020 Presidential Candidates: Where Do They Stand?
Climate change is getting unprecedented attention from the growing field of 2020 presidential candidates. These candidates are responding to the threats posed by a rapidly warming climate, the many economic opportunities in switching to clean energy and the increasing concern of the American people: according to the Yale Program…
Climate Change Will Hit Economies Hardest in Trump States, Report Finds
A recent report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program has found that states President Trump won in the 2016 election - including Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia - are among the most vulnerable to the economic impacts of climate change. Overall, 15 of the 16 states…
Election Outcomes Lead to Climate Action Across U.S.
In Washington, D.C., this month, climate change headlines have focused on the Green New Deal and the establishment of the new U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. But two months after the election of a new crop of pro-environment governors and state lawmakers, climate progress is beginning…
A New Call to National Climate Action
Minutes after opening the 116th Congress last week, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a stirring call to national action on what she called “the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis.”In Pelosi we have a leader who is listening to the science—and to the American people across the…
We Need Our Federal Workers on the Job
Our public servants undertake many tasks that we don’t often notice: They clear ice off the roads in national forests and ensure the local toxic Superfund site is being cleaned up; they inspect our drinking water systems and make sure the bathrooms at national parks have toilet paper.With President…
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