Climate Desk

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Presses Oil Firms on Lobbying for a Huge Tax Break in the Budget Bill

/

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1 billion tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , , ,

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Presses Oil Firms on Lobbying for a Huge Tax Break in the Budget Bill Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

California Rolls on With Electric Trucks, Despite Trump’s Roadblocks

/

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wes Lowe uses so much Claritin that he started an Amazon subscription to avoid running out. His kids take two asthma medications. This reflects the normalcy of pollution in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where residents breathe some of the dirtiest air in […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , , , ,

California Rolls on With Electric Trucks, Despite Trump’s Roadblocks Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Most People Support Taxing Carbon Even If It Costs Them, Global Survey Shows

/

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. People in affluent countries around the world are willing to tax themselves to address climate change and ease poverty. That idea defies conventional political wisdom, which typically holds that people hate taxes. It emerged in a survey of 40,680 people in […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , , ,

Most People Support Taxing Carbon Even If It Costs Them, Global Survey Shows Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Why Iran’s Nuclear Program Is So Essential to Its Identity

/

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of Iran met in the Paris suburbs of Neauphle-le-Château to plan for the final stages of the revolution, a revolution that after 46 momentous and often brutal years may now […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , , , ,

Why Iran’s Nuclear Program Is So Essential to Its Identity Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Utah’s High-Stakes PR Campaign to Wrest Control of Public Lands

/

This story was originally published by High Country News and Public Domain and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year, as Utah prepared to file a federal lawsuit aiming to take control of millions of acres of federal public land within its borders, state officials sought help swaying public opinion in their favor. So […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , ,

Utah’s High-Stakes PR Campaign to Wrest Control of Public Lands Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Future Climate Means No More Breakfast

/

This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of bread baskets. More than one-third of the world’s wheat and barley exports come from Ukraine and Russia, for example. Some of these highly productive farmlands, including […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , ,

Future Climate Means No More Breakfast Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

The Sunrise Movement Has Launched a Campaign to “Villainize Big Oil”

/

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The youth activists who put the Green New Deal on the political map are launching a new campaign to “villainize big oil” which will push for the industry to pay for climate action so the costs don’t fall on ordinary people. Seven years […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , ,

The Sunrise Movement Has Launched a Campaign to “Villainize Big Oil” Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Miccosukee Tribe Champions Conservation Effort to Secure Florida’s Wild Lands

/

Almost two centuries ago, Native American tribe members sought the protection of Florida’s Everglades during the Seminole wars as they hid from government forces seeking to banish them to Indian territories that later became Oklahoma. Now, as the Trump administration continues its wholesale slashing of federal funding from conservation projects, the Miccosukee Tribe is stepping up to […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , , ,

Miccosukee Tribe Champions Conservation Effort to Secure Florida’s Wild Lands Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Boosted By Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels

/

For the first time since 2021—the start of the Biden administration—banks have ramped up their financing of fossil fuel projects, a changing tide that reflects the Trump White House’s close ties to and energetic support for Big Oil. That’s based on the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, which analyzes the lending patterns of the […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , ,

Boosted By Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Boosted by Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels

/

For the first time since 2021—the start of the Biden administration—banks have ramped up their financing of fossil fuel projects, a changing tide that reflects the Trump White House’s close ties to and energetic support for Big Oil. That’s based on the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, which analyzes the lending patterns of the […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , , ,

Boosted by Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

From Ice to Inferno: Alaska Issues Historic Heat Advisory

/

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first-ever official heat advisory as temperatures […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , ,

From Ice to Inferno: Alaska Issues Historic Heat Advisory Read Post »

All voices Mother Jones Magazine

Klamath River Reborn: A Journey Through America’s Largest Dam Removal Project

/

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bill Cross pulled his truck to the side of a dusty mountain road and jumped out to scan a stretch of rapids rippling through the hillsides below. As an expert and a guide, Cross had spent more than […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

, , , ,

Klamath River Reborn: A Journey Through America’s Largest Dam Removal Project Read Post »

Find your voice:

Scroll to Top