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Offsets on fire
2024-08-08 (or before) in PoliticoWildfires are once again threatening California’s climate goals.
Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees | Carbon Offsetting | California
Nonprofit connected to Leonard Leo sent millions to his firm
2024-06-09 (or before) in PoliticoThe Washington attorney general has been investigating whether Leo’s network skirted nonprofit rules.
Tagged under: Lobbying | Capitalism
The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America
2024-04-29 (or before) in PoliticoSusie Wiles helped dismantle Ron DeSantis and salvaged Donald Trump’s campaign. Is she a MAGA hero or an enemy of democracy?
‘It’s a scary time’ as world shatters temperature record
2024-01-10 (or before) in PoliticoAnd 2024 may bring more of the same.
‘The crisis has arrived’: An elder statesman unpacks the battle over the West's water
2023-12-18 (or before) in PoliticoFormer Interior Secretary Babbitt talks about the big meeting in Las Vegas this week and the kind of concessions needed to save the crucial waterway.
Tagged under: Rivers | Colorado River | Colorado State
A suspense(ful) day for wind and fire
2023-09-02 (or before) in PoliticoWe've got a deal on how the state will buy offshore wind power.
Tagged under: Wind Power | California
Arizona Republicans Don’t Want to Hear About the Deadly Heat Wave
2023-08-14 (or before) in PoliticoGOP lawmakers are brushing off the extreme heat — and any suggestion of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’
2023-07-09 (or before) in PoliticoAt SXSW, the former California governor lets loose on climate change, Donald Trump and gives his first in-depth remarks on #MeToo.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California | Donald Trump
White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming
2023-07-02 (or before) in PoliticoA Biden administration report required by Congress outlines research options for a last-ditch effort to slow the heating of the planet. But the White House says it's not changing its climate strategy.
Tagged under: US Politics
New Trees Are No Substitute for Old Trees
2023-06-14 (or before) in PoliticoThe fires in Canada underscore the need to let our current mature forest grow old.
Tagged under: Forest Fires | Trees
Wind and solar romp across the globe
2023-06-03 (or before) in PoliticoTagged under: Solar Energy | Wind Power
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property
2023-04-25 (or before) in PoliticoThe Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.
How the climate movement learned to win in Washington
2023-04-06 (or before) in PoliticoAfter a staggering defeat, environmentalists needed a plan they could sell. Thus began a decade-long climb propelled by mass protests, heavy campaign spending and intense lobbying. Then came a final assist from Mother Nature herself.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Washington State | Activism
‘We will have a really long, long memory’: Greens calling businesses’ bluff on climate change
2021-09-15 (or before) in PoliticoActivists want the companies that have called for federal climate action to get behind the $3.5 trillion package: "We will have a really long, long memory."
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
2020-12-01 (or before) in PoliticoTaxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Housing
House Republicans caught between Trump and young voters on climate change
2020-01-27 (or before) in PoliticoGOP leaders are putting together their own more modest set of climate policies that their party can rally behind.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
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