Climate & Environment

Can we avoid the disaster of climate change? Can we reach a carbon-free future? Not as long as the richest among us continue to harbor delusions about their capacity to survive any catastrophe that might befall the rest of us.

The winner of this election is also the candidate who claims climate change is a hoax. So, it won't take too much imagination to predict what he will do to make the environment worse.

Roads, railways and bridges are experiencing increasing levels of damage and degradation because of the steady rise in temperatures. Left unconfronted, this situation will only worsen.

Aside from moving the entire country backward about 150 years, Project 2025 also calls for eliminating the forecasting role of the National Weather Service and turning that over to private companies.

Florida's political mouthpieces have been pushing natural gas for power generation, ignoring the fact that the cost has doubled. Meanwhile utilities are moving to a free and unlimited energy source—the sun.

Vermont is taking the first step in shifting some of the cost burden of responding and adapting to such climate-related disasters from taxpayers and onto the corporate polluters.

Floating solar panels already have been successfully deployed for large-scale projects in Asia.

Polling suggests that younger voters are prioritizing the environment and climate change more so than older Republicans. In a sense, it’s a harkening back to the Republican Party of the past.

Voters resoundingly endorse fossil fuel companies contributing their fair share to address a crisis they helped manufacture and still refuse to help fix.

Air pollution from coal is much more harmful than previously thought. And siting power plants upwind of major population centers only made matters worse.

If activists succeed in stopping the Hanscom Field expansion outside Boston, it will be the next “shot heard ’round the world” on a warming planet.

Scientists are turning to nonviolent climate protest, including civil disobedience, to demand that governments take bold action to snuff out the use of oil, gas, and coal.

California’s new laws mean oil and gas companies like Chevron will likely have to account for emissions from vehicles that use their gasoline, and Apple will have to account for materials that go into iPhones.

Young people are filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and government for climate change damage—and some are even winning.

The endorsement of the fossil fuel treaty proposal by Antigua and Barbuda and Timor-Leste... shows who are the real climate leaders.

Wind farm opponents claim that offshore wind is responsible for a spike in whale deaths. Experts don’t buy it, but interest groups backed by fossil fuel money are spreading false information.