Hundreds of industrial facilities with toxic pollutants were in Hurricane Helene’s path as the powerful storm flooded communities across the Southeast in late September 2024. Near the coast and into Georgia, Helene swept over paper mills, fertilizer factories and oil and gas storage facilities. James R. Elliott, Rice University; Dominic Boyer, Rice University, and Phylicia […]
Welcome to National Clean Energy Week! Wer are bringing the podcast to you a day early this week to honor the opening of this 8th annual event highlighting the benefits and promise of clean energy and those who champion it on Capitol Hill. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN Heather Reams is the President of Citizens for Responsible […]
As a child growing up in the early 1990s, I remember learning in school about the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels traps heat near the Earth’s surface, like the glass of a greenhouse. I imagined myself on the playground, roasting inside a humid hothouse. Fast forward 30 years, and the terms […]
Levels of methane in the atmosphere have soared by record-breaking amounts since 2020, according to new research. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, locks in around 80 times more warming over the course of two decades than CO2, but fades more quickly from the atmosphere. As a result, cutting methane emissions is widely viewed as a crucial part […]
A greener games? Certainly that is what Paris promised when it made environmental sustainability, innovation and leadership central to its successful bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Organising Committee promised “historic” progress on climate goals, halving the carbon footprint of previous games in Rio and London. Belinda Wheaton, University of Waikato […]
Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments when everyone looks skyward, baseball players and fans alike, anxiously awaiting the outcome: run or out, win or loss, elation or despair. Over the past several Major League Baseball seasons, home run numbers have climbed dramatically, including Aaron Judge’s record-breaking 62 homers for the New York Yankees […]
Little did I know when I left town for the last ten days of February that DC’s famous cherry blossoms would start to emerge while I was gone! This is just one example of the strange weather that is impacting nearly half of Americans this week. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN This is just […]
Wherever you are, you can TAKE ACTION this week to give us some breathing room in the Senate (and make Manchinema less of a progress-blocking chimera) The Warnock campaign breaks out the sixty-second spots for the Democrats’ closer: pic.twitter.com/VdXZQJg8bU — Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) November 30, 2022 Here are some links: The Environmental Voter Project — Phone banking […]
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is running for a full term, against a dangerous MAGA extremist. Arizona also has a governor’s race where a MAGA extremist is running, and key state legislative races too. Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, knows that climate-magnified Phoenix heatwaves literally kill Arizonans. As an astronaut, he’s […]
Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled. By Greenpeace The report also finds that no type of plastic packaging in the […]
The biggest climate gathering in the Americans and one of the biggest in the world, Climate Week NYC comes every year in conjunction with the opening session of the United Nations. Click here to sign up for the livestream, and if you’re in the New York area you can sign up to attend sessions in person […]
Cooks love their gadgets, from countertop slow cookers to instant-read thermometers. Now, there’s increasing interest in magnetic induction cooktops – surfaces that cook much faster than conventional stoves, without igniting a flame or heating an electric coil. Jonathan Levy, Boston University The Conversation Some of this attention is overdue: Induction has long been popular in […]
Join the American Conservation Coalition for the first-ever ACC Summit! We’ll be kicking off summer 2022 with 250 ACC members and friends from across the country for a weekend of networking, education, and activism training in Washington, D.C! June 9-11, 2022 | JW Marriott Washington, D.C. Attendees will learn how they can elevate their involvement […]
If you’d like to make a donation to a worthy cause on this 53rd Earth Day… For more than ten years, I’ve been editing and publishing RedGREENandBlue.org, a website that brings together progressive and conservative voices in favor of climate change action. Unfortunately, with the current coronavirus economic meltdown, we’ve lost our primary funding source. […]
Earth Day 1970 (Pogo via Walt Kelley) (Earth Day 1970 by Robert Leydenfrost, via Click Americana) ->Next Poster For the past 15 years, RedGREENandBlue has been bringing you the best of climate change and clean energy stories from the full spectrum, from progressive to conservative. Unfortunately, with the coronavirus meltdown, we lost our primary funding […]