by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 28, 2017 | EcoRight News
By executive order, President Donald Trump made good on a campaign promise to dismantle the Clean Power Plan. His directive also dismantles requirements that federal agencies, including the military, consider climate change in policymaking decisions, including using a...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 27, 2017 | EcoRight News
Republican Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, a vocal supporter for climate change action, highlighted in his eighth and final State of the City address the severity of the climate-related impacts the city is experiencing. Climate change is “the biggest challenge the...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 24, 2017 | EcoRight News
This week’s climate jester of the week award goes to Maine state representative Larry Lockman, who introduced a bill to add a person’s belief (or lack thereof) in climate change to the state’s law protecting people from discrimination based on...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 24, 2017 | EcoRight News
This week’s must read: How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Climate) Bomb (Foreign Policy)This week’s other must read: Climate Leadership in the Trump Era (Ensia)This week in climate change, the ecoright choir for climate action grew louder and...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 22, 2017 | EcoRight News
Republican co-signers of a conservative climate change resolution, 13 of whom also serve on the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus, continue to talk about why they are committed to pushing Congress to enact solutions. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a co-founder of the...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 20, 2017 | EcoRight News
Florida’s Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who co-founded the House Climate Solutions Caucus and helped spearhead last week’s reintroduction of a Republican-backed climate change resolution, has invited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt to come to...