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Maine Senator Introduces Green Amendment to Secure Clean Air and Water Rights

Maine Senator Introduces Green Amendment to Secure Clean Air and Water Rights

Maine State Senator Chloe Maxmin doesn’t identify as a “traditional Democrat.” She has a good reason for this: “I don’t really trust the government,” she told EcoWatch. “I haven’t trusted our government throughout how it’s responded to COVID and I don’t trust it in terms of how it’s going to respond to the climate crisis.” […]

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    How Ossoff and Warnock’s Georgia Senate Wins Will Impact the Climate

    How Ossoff and Warnock’s Georgia Senate Wins Will Impact the Climate

    Democrats have won control of the Senate and with it, a fighting shot at passing meaningful climate legislation. The Associated Press called the two Georgia runoff Senate races for Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock at 2:05 a.m. EST Wednesday morning and for Democrat Jon Ossoff at 4:16 p.m. EST Wednesday afternoon. Their win means the Senate […]

    The Biggest Environmental Wins and Losses of the 2020 Election

    The Biggest Environmental Wins and Losses of the 2020 Election

    By Tara Lohan Election Day 2020 — the day before the United States officially left the Paris climate agreement — didn’t deliver an immediate rebuke to President Trump or relief for environmentalists. That would have to wait. “The election hasn’t produced the outcome that the planet badly needed,” Bill McKibben of 350.org summed up in […]

    Sen. Merkley Introduces Bills to Stop Banks From Funding Fossil Fuels

    Sen. Merkley Introduces Bills to Stop Banks From Funding Fossil Fuels

    By Jessica Corbett Green groups applauded Sen. Jeff Merkley on Wednesday for introducing a pioneering pair of bills that aim to “protect the long-term health and well-being of the American people and their economy from the catastrophic effects of climate chaos” by preventing banks and international financial institutions from financing fossil fuels. “How we invest […]

    House Democrats Introduce Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act

    House Democrats Introduce Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act

    By Jessica Corbett Leaders of climate and conservation groups on Tuesday welcomed House Democrats’ introduction of landmark legislation that aims to address the ocean impacts of human-caused global heating and reform federal ocean management—recognizing that, as Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva put it, “a healthy ocean is key to fighting the climate crisis.” The Arizona Democrat, […]

    2020 Elections Will Determine Which Party Dominates Public Land Debates

    2020 Elections Will Determine Which Party Dominates Public Land Debates

    By James R. Skillen Presidential elections are anxious times for federal land agencies and the people they serve. The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service manage more than a quarter of the nation’s land, which means that a new president can literally reshape the American […]