2021’s biggest climate disasters cost the U.S. $145B. Five essential reads | Analysis
By Stacy Morford, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Guest Contributor, January 12, 2022.
The disasters just kept coming in 2021, from Hurricane Ida’s destruction across Louisiana and the Northeast to devastating wildfires in the West and damaging storms, tornadoes and floods. Nearly half …
An Empire of Dying Wells
by Zachary R. Mider and Rachel Adams-Heard, Bloomberg Green, Oct. 12, 2021.
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Hutson is the founder and chief executive officer of one of the strangest companies ever to hit the American oil patch and the reason for our four-day …
The IPCC Report is Grim, But There’s Room for Hope
By Christian Morris, Climate X Change, Aug. 12, 2021
This week, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reaffirmed what scientists, advocates, and scholars have been telling us for years: our planet is in dire straits, and human activity …
Pa. Senate GOP blocks utility commission appointments to protest Wolf’s climate change rule
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, April 22, 2021. Laura Legere.
Pennsylvania Senate Republicans are blocking Gov. Tom Wolf’s appointments to the state Public Utility Commission until the Democratic governor drops his effort to use executive authority to join a regional partnership for …
US formally withdraws from Paris agreement
By Matt McGrath, BBC News, Nov. 4, 2020.
After a three-year delay, the US has become the first nation in the world to formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
President Trump announced the move in June 2017, but UN …
Not Competent to Opine
350.org Statement on Senate Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Oct. 26, 2020.
Natalie Mebane, 350.org US Policy Director, issued the following statement:
…“Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a direct assault on our climate and our communities. This push of
Ginsburg death leaves ‘no environmental voice’ on bench
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could shake the foundation of America’s bedrock environmental laws, leaving a chasm on the bench …
A misguided strategy
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Editorial, Sept. 8, 2020.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler was in the Hill District on Aug. 13 to confirm the Trump administration’s decision to rescind federal regulations on methane emissions. This shortsighted rule change will not …