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June 29, 2020
Miranda Green
It Will Take Years to Undo the Damage from Trump’s Environmental Rollback
Even if Democrats win back the White House and the Senate, it will be a long struggle to restore the regulations the Republican-controlled EPA has erased.
June 26, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is BlackRock the New Vampire Squid?
The investment giant casts itself as socially responsible while contributing to the climate catastrophe, evading regulatory scrutiny, and angling to influence a Biden administration.
June 24, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Jamaal Bowman and the Democratic Insurgency That Could Help Save the Planet
Many establishment Democrats have failed to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis, but their challengers do.
June 23, 2020
Harry Cheadle
America Has Failed the Existential-Crisis Test
What the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic means for the global fight against climate change
June 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Turn Rikers Island Into a Solar Farm
A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.
June 17, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Inside the Fight to Shape Biden’s Climate Policy
The candidate’s official platform may matter less in the end than his appointments. Progressives are starting to suggest names.
June 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
One Quick Trick for Curbing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Political Influence
Nationalize them.
June 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Reactionary Unions Don’t Just Back Police. They Also Back Fossil Fuels.
The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?
June 8, 2020
Benjamin Franta
The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities
Stanford’s divestment debate shows how effective fossil fuel companies have been at colonizing academia.
June 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
BP Is Not Woke. It’s an Imperialist Success Story.
The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.
June 4, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Defunding the Police Is Good Climate Policy
Budgets are about to get tight. States and cities should direct money to programs that truly make communities more secure.
June 3, 2020
Eric Margolis
Climate Change Is Going to Hit Palestine Particularly Hard
Global warming will exacerbate the Israel-Palestine conflict. But the conflict will also exacerbate the effects of global warming.
June 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is Puerto Rico About to Give Another Terrible Energy Contract to an American Company?
Prepa, the island’s electric power company, and FEMA have found themselves embroiled in scandal before.
June 1, 2020
Geoff Dembicki
Trump Is Bailing Out Big Meat—and Further Screwing the Planet
Preserving the current system means preserving a climate-destroying supply chain built around industrial meat production.
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
May 18, 2020
Magazine
Aaron Timms
Making Life Cheap
Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
May 11, 2020
Abigail Higgins
Your Climate Anxiety Is Another Person’s Existential Crisis
It’s natural for even fortunate Americans to worry about the planet’s future. But for some people, disaster has already struck.
May 7, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Oil Crash Could Be Geothermal’s Big Break
Geothermal power requires similar infrastructure and skills as fossil fuel extraction, which means laid-off oil workers could switch to greener work pretty easily.
May 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Important Debate
Planet of the Humans
Misses
Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.
May 4, 2020
Eleanor Cummins
The Dark Search for a “Silver Lining” to the Coronavirus
Fewer humans do not a healthier planet make.
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