"Words that make actions speak louder."
With the nomination of Exxon-Mobil’s CEO and an Energy Transfer Partners board member to Cabinet posts, Donald Trump has added to the swamp he pledged to clean two corporate alligators who will put the planet in peril.
“Day of Action” events around the country will protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while a petition drive calls for a broader halt to oil extraction.
The confrontation over the Dakota Access Pipeline challenges President Obama, the Democratic candidate who is seeking to succeed him, Hillary Clinton, and Congress to be clear whose side they are on.
The Congressional Caucus’ budget proposal for fiscal 2017 includes a set of climate-change-related proposals that one environmental organization says makes it “the greenest option in Washington.”
“It’s going to be a campaign issue,” says an activist and homeowner who is among those who will be hurt by a Koch brothers-backed push to make home solar power adoption prohibitively expensive.
Whether you are skeptical of the Paris agreement or see them as a groundbreaking accomplishment for the planet, you should see them as an opportunity for us as citizens to keep our leaders accountable.
Scott Wallace of the Wallace Global Fund, who will be honored at the Campaign for America’s Future 2015 Awards Gala, explains his success in driving the global conversation on climate change.
Why would the ALEC network of right-wing state lobbyists want to kill off incentives for using solar energy? Could it be the heavy investment in fossil fuels by one of ALEC’s chief funders, the Koch brothers?
Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The spectacle was the equivalent of the six-year-old, willful diva-to-be slamming the doll on the ground and […]