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7 Events to Check Out During the 10th Annual Climate Week NYC

7 Events to Check Out During the 10th Annual Climate Week NYC

Monday marks the start of the 10th annual Climate Week NYC. From Sept. 24 to the 30, non-profit The Climate Group has invited businesses, governments, nonprofit organizations, universities and art and music organizations to host a wide variety of affiliated events devoted to raising awareness and prompting action around climate change. “Climate Week NYC is […]

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    The Environmental Legacy of Senator John McCain, 1936-2018

    The Environmental Legacy of Senator John McCain, 1936-2018

    As news outlets around the country reflect on Senator John McCain’s life and legacy following his death at 81 on Saturday, one strand that emerges is his attempts as a Senator to push bipartisan action on climate change. In early 2003, McCain joined with then-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act, which […]

    Climate Activists Turn Up the Heat on NY Gov. Cuomo With Sit-In

    Climate Activists Turn Up the Heat on NY Gov. Cuomo With Sit-In

    By Andrea Germanos Dozens of young New Yorkers on Wednesday are occupying the Manhattan office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo to demand he reject fossil fuel money. “We’re here fighting for the people that we love and the places we call home,” said one of the activists with the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led group behind the […]

    Bill McKibben: The Question I Get Asked the Most

    Bill McKibben: The Question I Get Asked the Most

    The questions come after talks, on twitter, in the days’ incoming tide of email—sometimes even in old-fashioned letters that arrive in envelopes. The most common one by far is also the simplest: What can I do? I bet I’ve been asked it 10,000 times by now and—like a climate scientist predicting the temperature—I’m pretty sure […]

    19 Senators Expose ‘Web of Denial’ Blocking Action on Climate Change

    19 Senators Expose ‘Web of Denial’ Blocking Action on Climate Change

    By Brendan DeMelle Nineteen U.S. Senators who understand the need to clear the PR pollution that continues to block overdue climate policy spoke out on the Senate floor Monday in support of the Senate Web of Denial Resolution calling out the destructive forces of fossil fuel industry-funded climate denial. Championed by Senators Whitehouse, Markey, Schatz, […]