Climate Jester: slapping our heads

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a climate jester. We will let the tweet speak for itself. “Can you imagine anything the scientists would say that would persuade the US administration that it needs to take [climate change] more seriously?” Presenter...

Climate Week En Review, October 5, 2018

Happy October! As you’ll read below, Team EcoRight made some strong and compelling moves this week, all of which we applaud. #latergram: Wheaton students advocate for the environment alongside Congressman Roskam (The Wheaton Record) Wheaton College’s...

George Shultz extols carbon tax

Statesman George Shultz, veteran of President Ronald Reagan’s administration and advocate of a cap and dividend plan, spoke at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University where he extolled the carbon tax. “It works,” he said....

Bush’s former EPA head calls on GOP

Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who served as President George W. Bush’s first EPA Administrator, said in an op-ed Republicans need to “do something” about climate change and that “it’s time to hold the Republican party to...

Florida congressman joins climate caucus

The House Climate Solutions Caucus hit 90 members with the addition of Florida’s Rep. Francis Rooney on the Republican side and Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna from California. Florida already was the most represented state on the caucus, founded by two of its...