Jenny Price, historian, artist, author, and Ivy League academic, thinks most environmentalists are sabotaging their own cause. Shouldering their tote bags through the organic aisle at the grocery store, they miss the bigger problem tearing the planet to pieces: the…

On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a directive telling state agencies to ban fracking permits by 2024 and to assess how the state can phase out all oil and gas production by 2045. The announcement came a day after …

A short-run weekly newsletter analyzing federal climate action during the first months of the Biden administration. Hi there, I’m Zoya Teirstein. It’s day 94 of the Biden administration, and this week, the president brought the world to the bargaining table. Joe Biden…

A short-run weekly newsletter analyzing federal climate action during the first months of the Biden administration. Hi there, I’m Zoya Teirstein. It’s day 94 of the Biden administration, and this week, the president brought the world to the bargaining table. Joe Biden…

In the spring of 2015, nine months before world leaders assembled in Paris to hammer out a landmark agreement on climate change, President Barack Obama quietly announced his pledge to cut carbon emissions. The proposal was relatively modest: a cut…

The Biden administration will attempt to win back international trust in the United States as a partner in tackling global warming during a two-day climate summit this Thursday and Friday. Forty countries have been invited to the virtual event, which…