Liza Featherstone

@lfeatherz

We know enough about microplastics to be worried. RFK Jr. should not be the only candidate with a plan to fight them.

That’s saying something, given that Thunberg reliably seems to bring out the nutty in conservatives.

As major wind projects collapse all down the East Coast, New York is proceeding with a public model for renewable energy.

As both technology and the climate fight become grimmer, it’s good to remember that innovation can still drive hope and make the world a nicer place.

By ensuring electric vehicles produce high-wage union jobs, Shawn Fain has robbed the GOP of some of its talking points.

Images of avoidable cruelty to animals and mass slaughter of humans should call us to action.

Property owners, who have so much to lose in the climate crisis, should not resist regulation. Instead, we must step up and take some responsibility.

The time has passed for an event like the one happening this week in New York.

Anyone who doesn’t want Trump to serve another term must learn to love the Inflation Reduction Act, and despise those who seek its destruction.

How extreme weather could unite the environmental and labor movements

There’s ample fodder for both optimism and pessimism on climate—but all that matters is what we do.

It’s long past time for adults with real power to force change to join the climate movement.

James Watt was a fiery evangelical, a cultural laughingstock—and instrumental in shaping modern GOP rhetoric on the environment.

Pope Francis’s recent draft text demands climate reparations and an immediate end to fossil fuel exploration. Why can’t the Biden administration do the same?

Conservatives’ sudden interest in wildlife conservation is actually just their latest attempt to own the libs. But why are some liberals falling for it?

Biden’s approval of oil drilling in Alaska won’t have the impact some people fear—but the administration’s broader pro-drilling stance will.

Richard Nixon, the original culture warrior, helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.

The Build Public Renewables Act represents a massive challenge to fossil fuel hegemony—if it passes.

The propaganda around Cop City is all wrong: Public safety and green space go hand in hand.

The people protesting “Cop City”—at tremendous personal cost—deserve our support. They’re defending a vital public health and climate resource.