EcoRight Speaks podcast – Emily O’Keefe, carbon dividend student movement leader

Published on May 6th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Baseball is also getting hit with climate change – how a warming earth is causing more home runs

Published on May 5th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

What’s driving inflation? Shell oil posts obscene $10 billion profit in just 3 months

Published on May 5th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Cato offers up a variety of disinformation – about EVs, about tobacco…

Published on May 5th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Why the debt ceiling matters for the climate

Published on May 4th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

EcoRight Speaks podcast – Drew Eyerly & Jennifer Tyler of Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s Conservative Caucus

Published on May 3rd, 2023 | by

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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 […]

No New Gas – New York to build publicly owned renewable energy, electrify new buildings

Published on May 3rd, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Toxic Fossil Fuel apologists now embrace class struggle (but only to attack climate action)

Published on May 3rd, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Polluters want to cut regulations and make more money (They don’t care if YOU get sick and die!)

Published on May 1st, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Manchin sides with GOP to roll back truck emission standards – where was Feinstein?

Published on April 28th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Deniers who harass climate scientists get very upset at the idea of peer pressure in FAVOR of climate action

Published on April 28th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

Coalition sues EPA over unregulated water pollution from oil refineries, plastics plants

Published on April 27th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

“Default on America Act” – Earthjustice condemns the House GOP’s debt ceiling debacle

Published on April 27th, 2023 | by

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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 […]

GOP House passes draconian debt ceiling bill to roll back clean energy, push fossil fuels, and hurt seniors and veterans

Published on April 27th, 2023 | by

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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 […]