Fossil Fuels and Public Lands: How the US Interior Department Can Act on Climate Right Now
Photo: Rexjaymes/Shutterstock Those of us who work on climate action, whether it be reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow warming or addressing the impacts of the warming that’s already baked into the system, we tend toward the somber. We’re optimists, or we wouldn’t be doing it at all, but circumstances can sometimes dampen our outward […]
Stopping Climate Change Is Not Enough
Craig Davidenko/dronemedia.com This post was co-authored with Lara Hansen, Chief Scientist and Executive Director of EcoAdapt. Last summer, one of us was locked inside their home in the Seattle area, not because of the pandemic, but because the air was full of smoke from fires raging hundreds of miles away in California. The other was peering […]
Trump’s Rushed Oil Leasing in the Arctic: A Dumpster Fire of Desperation, Greed, and Crippling Loyalty Tests
The Trump administration is fast-tracking its attempts to lock the federal government into binding contracts for drilling in the undeveloped coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, pictured here in this satellite image. Photo: NASA These days the Arctic holds several distinctions. First, of course, it is the most rapidly warming place on Earth—warming […]
