5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (314+ words) “The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection, enlisting at least a half-dozen federal agencies to undermine the state’s efforts to pivot away from fossil fuels,” the…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (118+ words) “A series of severe heatwaves and prolonged droughts have turned many European riverbeds into barren sandscapes this summer,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Major arteries for trade and agriculture across the continent—including the Rhine, Danube and Po—are now…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (138+ words) “Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, are drying up, sending a Colorado River system that provides water and electricity for millions of people into a state of crisis with no end in sight,” the New York Times reports....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (246+ words) Dan Pfeiffer: “The bigger the wave, the more Democrats elected, the greater the chance of taking the Senate, and the bigger the rebuke of Trump, his broken promises, his idiotic war, and his rampant corruption.” “When people talk about a…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (110+ words) “July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday, dramatically marking an already scorching summer,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The average temperature was 76.9 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest in the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (280+ words) “A liberal group working to elect scientists to public office has a 2028 message for Arizona Sen. — and former astronaut — Mark Kelly: Run, Kelly, run,” Axios reports. Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (302+ words) “A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to lift its freeze on reviewing offshore wind energy projects for national security concerns, one of several tools the Trump administration has used to undercut the renewables industry,” the Washington Post reports. Goddard spent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (217+ words) Leah Stokes: “Joe Biden’s signature climate law was not just about climate. The Inflation Reduction Act was also a big bet on a particular theory of politics: Pass a law that creates factories and good-paying jobs in communities across the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) “Conditions as hot, dry and windy as those leading up to the giant wildfires in France and Spain this week have become more likely in those countries since humans began warming the planet, according to a new analysis,” the New…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (182+ words) Wall Street Journal: “Europeans have long shunned air conditioning, viewing it as noisy, a blight on their architectural heritage and, above all, unnecessary, as long as the summers were mild. They feared widespread adoption of the energy-hungry technology would undermine…...