EcoRight News
A compilation of news from the EcoRight.
Come here for the latest climate news from lawmakers, thought leaders, and rising voices in the EcoRight. Federal, state, and local issues and events are covered, and we feature commentary from EcoRight allies.
Climate Week En Review: April 2, 2021
Coming at you short and jelly bean sweet today. We wish those who celebrate a Happy Easter.🐇 To one and all, we hope the weekend brings you rest and rejuvenation. But before you power down... This...
Corporate interests get behind carbon pricing
With the news that American Petroleum Institute (API) is joining the ranks of other corporate interests calling for carbon pricing, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight the statements...
Climate Week En Review: March 26, 2021
March Madness! Who still has an intact bracket? How long before the cargo ship is rescued from blocking the Suez Canal? Who had API endorses carbon pricing on their 2021 bingo card? Let's start...
EcoRight Speaks, season 2, episode 10: NGV America President, Daniel Gage
In this week's episode we bring you information about Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs), a technology that frankly I knew very little about before conducting this interview. (I choose guests not just for...
Climate Week En Review, March 19, 2021
This week featured the Ides of March, St. Patricks Day, and the NCAA basketball tournament tip off. Oh, and some other stuff happened too. Welcome to the team: We are thrilled to add to our...
EcoRight Speaks, season 2, episode 9: EEN’s Dr. Jessica Moerman
Talk about a fun episode to record. Dr. Jessica Moerman, the Senior Director for Science and Policy at the Evangelical Environmental Network, is truly someone you want to know. She and I have...
Climate Week En Review, March 12, 2021
Is it too soon to be dreaming about the joy of springtime gardening? As we hit the one-year anniversary of a changed way of living due to COVID-19, I was reflecting on how obsessed I was last year...
EcoRight Speaks, season 2, episode 8: Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard
This week's episode of the EcoRight Speaks features my conversation with Carmel, Indiana's very own, Mayor Jim Brainard. Mayor Brainard has been featured dozens of times in my EcoRight News posts...
Climate Week En Review: March 5, 2021
Welcome, dear readers, to March. In like a lion, out like a lamb? It's hard to believe we are coming up on one year of pandemic life. I remember that I thought my kids were going to be doing virtual...
EcoRight Speaks, season two, episode 7: Dr. Joshua Rhodes, Texas electricity grid expert
I was thrilled to lock in this interview with Dr. Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas at Austin and an expert on the electricity grid. He breaks down for us what happened...
Major oil group considers carbon pricing
In news reported initially by the Wall Street Journal, the American Petroleum Institute, a major trade association comprised of more than 600 companies in the oil and gas industry, is said to be...
Monday Magic
Happy Monday! Two quick reads I want to share to kick off your week. Our spokesperson Tyler Gillette was published on Friday with another in the series of op-eds appealing to Senator Rob Portman to...