The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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These Corporations Have the Biggest Influence on Climate Policy
The "Corporate Carbon Policy Footprint," a new analysis from InfluenceMap, now ranks Koch Industries as the company with the strongest opposition to the Paris climate agreement
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Climate Change Has ‘Loaded The Dice’ On The Frequency Of 100-Year Floods
Maybe we need a new way to describe extreme weather events.
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Activists Demand Climate Refugees Be Recognized
A 2015 tidal surge caused the sea to flood across the islands of Kiribati, the small Pacific island nation chain of atolls that could be the first national homeland lost completely to climate change.
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Gulf Coast "Dead Zone" the Size of New Jersey Alarms Scientists
Scientists from Louisiana State U. and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium found the area of hypoxia, or low oxygen, to be the largest in the 31 years that the group has been measuring – and the 2nd largest man-made hypoxia region in the world.
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Millions Consumed Potentially Unsafe Water in the Past 10 Years
As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural California to the boroughs of New York City were exposed to potentially unsafe water in the last decade due to industrial dumping, farming pollution and pipe deterioration.
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What to Do When You See Science Denial at the Science Museum
I went to DC’s Smithsonian Museum of Natural History expecting to learn about the history of our planet. Instead, I stumbled upon a Koch-funded climate denial disaster.
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On Electric Cars, the U.S. Is Stuck in the Slow Lane
While Europe races toward electric vehicles, U.S. automakers are actually trying to make cars less efficient.
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are a Staggering $5 Trillion Per Year
A study was just published in the journal World Development that quantifies the amount of subsidies directed toward fossil fuels globally, and the results are shocking.
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Utilities Knew: Power Providers Deceived the Public on Climate Change for 50 Years
For half a century, electric utilities have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science, respond to climate change with disinformation, and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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Our Best Shot at Meeting Paris Goals? Make Energy Public
A new report finds public ownership is the best way for cities and towns to meet renewable energy and efficiency targets.
