We have a choice this election—and it starts with the leaders we choose. That’s the key word here: WE. In the climate movement, we are working every day to drive a shift away from dirty fossil fuels and create a safe and sustainable future for our planet. And together, we have the power to elect […]
With more than 100 million Americans expected to watch the first presidential debate tonight, there are growing calls to question the candidates‘ stance on climate change. Who's a #Climate Champion and Who's a Climate Disaster? https://t.co/3vuqHlqbWu @sierraclub @NRDC_AF @NextGenClimate @NRDC @greenpeaceusa — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) September 23, 2016 Lester Holt “owes it to future generations” to […]
Thousands of Americans are speaking up to tell the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to raise the bar and set a higher standard for cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars in the U.S. Will you join them? Before 2007, U.S. fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles hadn’t changed all that much for more than two decades. […]
By Jeremy Deaton You might know the feeling—after months of encouraging news from your bathroom scale, you discover the device is broken. The outlook on your weight-loss goal is worse than you realized. Scientists just went through something similar, except instead of a scale, it was a system of satellites, and instead of your winter […]
During his final UN General Assembly address, President Obama pressed for a “sense of urgency” in bringing the Paris agreement into force and for scaling up ambition on climate action. He also called for more clean energy investment in developing countries. According to the United Nations, 30 countries are expected to formally join the Paris […]
Carbon price: The price for avoided or released carbon dioxide (CO2) or CO2-equivalent emissions. This may refer to the rate of a carbon tax or the price of emission permits. In many models that are used to assess the economic costs of mitigation, carbon prices are used as a proxy to represent the level of […]
Last summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Clean Power Plan, the first-ever standards to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants. The plan was a major breakthrough for the U.S. and a cornerstone of our commitments to the Paris agreement to reduce overall emissions 26—28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. As […]
The issue of climate change received a fair amount of attention on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Bernie Sanders reaffirmed his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, saying, “This election is about climate change, the greatest environmental crisis facing our planet, and the need to leave this world in a way that is […]
Ten years ago, when Susan Pacheco sat down to help her children with their homework, she wasn’t thinking about changing the course of her life. She was thinking about getting them to finish their assignments, getting dinner ready and getting through a long list of patients at her university’s clinic the next day. As it […]
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