by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 31, 2017 | EcoRight News
The climate jester of the week award goes to Pennsylvania state Sen. Scott Wagner, who said human body heat causes global warming.Wagner told an audience of natural gas drilling advocates, “I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the Earth...
by Chelsea Henderson | Mar 29, 2017 | EcoRight News
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s sweeping Executive Order various members of the ecoright community responded. Here is a snapshot of their reactions: Mayor Jim Brainard (Carmel, IN): “It doesn’t impact anything we’re doing. Cities...
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 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 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...
