We are cruising through season six and I’m so glad we were able to get in a conversation with Emily O’Keefe before the junior philosophy major at the College of William and Mary headed into final exams. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN After an existential crisis she had hiking the Appalachian Trail led Emily to question what she could […]
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 […]
Yesterday was May the Fourth (be with you). Today is Cinco de Mayo. Saturday is the Kentucky Derby. I *thought* Mothers Day was Sunday but luckily it’s the following weekend so I still have time to get my mom a card in the mail. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN This week’s must read: Carbon tax […]
The British oil behemoth Shell reported a record $9.6 billion in first-quarter profits and announced $4 billion in stock buybacks, prompting fury from environmentalists and progressive lawmakers who say the fossil fuel industry’s profiteering is grotesque amid a worsening climate emergency and cost-of-living crises across Europe. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams Shell CEO Wael Sawan—who recently declared that […]
Everyone knows smoking causes cancer and that the tobacco industry lied about it for decades. When it finally got caught and was held accountable, some of the people and organizations the industry funded to protect its profits from regulations turned to the fossil fuel industry and continued plying their trade. Some twenty-odd years later, ExxonMobil and other oil companies are […]
Washington is much closer than most people realize to defaulting on its debts – and to undoing the Inflation Reduction Act, America’s climate ambitions, and America’s role as a global climate leader. By RL Miller Climate Hawks Vote On Tuesday President Biden invited leaders from both parties in the house and Senate to come […]
What a joy to speak to CCL’s Conservative Caucus leaders Jennifer Tyler and Drew Eyerly about their recent lobby day where conservatives from across the country came to Washington, DC to talk to their lawmakers about the carbon fee and dividend plan. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN After a few pandemic years where their group was not able to get […]
Climate campaigners in New York were credited on Tuesday with pushing Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature to include in the state budget “historic” provisions that will build publicly owned renewable energy and end the use of fossil fuels in new buildings—without a loophole allowing municipalities to opt out of the requirement. By […]
Fossil fuel interests love to steal social justice language and use it to trick people into supporting the oil and gas industry. This fossil fuel “woke–washing” often comes in the form of false class struggle arguments that wrongly present climate action as a scam used by elite actors to disempower the working class, when it’s […]
When you’re a kid, rules are just about the worst thing in the world. Bedtimes? Whack. Chores? A bore. Homework? For nerds! Then you grow up, and realize oh hey, sleep is important for growth and brain development, cleaning is important to keep your nice things nice, and homework’s still for nerds, but it’s probably better […]
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is facing fresh calls to resign after her extended absence—and Sen. Joe Manchin’s inclination to partner with Republicans—led to the Wednesday passage of a resolution to roll back Biden administration emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks. By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams In a 50-49 vote, Manchin (D-W.Va.)—a fossil fuel industry beneficiary known for obstructing his own […]
Earlier this week, we talked about how $795,000 homeowner Anthony Watts is working with the Heartland Institute to sell $2,000 thermometers to compete with the global temperature records. But what’s up with Watts’ namesake blog, WattsUpWithThat? These days? Not much. By Climate Denier Roundup Last week, for example, Watts’ replacement blogger Eric Worrall was triggered by a Scientific American […]
It’s a very tough time for the fish and ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary, with ocean salmon season closed off the California and most of Oregon due to the collapse of Sacramento and Klamath River fall-run Chinook populations as the Delta smelt gets closer and closer to extinction in the wild. One […]
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act, the House Republican plan for addressing the debt limit. Their plan raises the debt limit in exchange for repealing large parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, including billions of dollars in clean energy and environmental justice investments highly popular with the public. It includes […]
A wide range of advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday fiercely denounced Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives for narrowly passing their “debt ceiling scam” containing “extreme, harmful cuts against average Americans to protect billionaire tax breaks.” By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams The so-called the Limit, Save, Grow Act was unveiled last week by GOP House […]