EcoRight News Blog

Another week, another opportunity to share with you the goings on of the EcoRight. The first full work week of 2019, we have settled back into the groove, and I'm happy to share with you this week's...

Recently retired Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Costello announced this week that he's joining Americans for Carbon Dividends, a bipartisan group launched in June to advocate for the carbon dividend plan...

In an interview with The Guardian, Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, and dear friend to the EcoRight, unleashed about recent...

Welcome to 2019! The EcoRight has high hopes for the year ahead. Here's why: Mayor Jim Brainard leads the practical climate fight from Carmel, Indiana and has his pulse on the feelings of mayors...

Conservative Congressman Francis Rooney says not only that he accepts climate change science, but that he thinks the U.S. needs to get tough in our response, which is why he's a lead supporter of a...

Are you making a list? Checking it twice? We are too. But this week in honor of the holiday spirit, we're going to skip the climate naughty and focus on the climate nice. A Christmas greeting from...

Arizona's retiring Senator Jeff Flake—who last month called the IPCC report on climate change "pretty dire"—joined Delaware's Sen. Chris Coons to introduce the Senate companion to the Energy...

Two House Republicans who lost their bids for re-election sat down to chat with PBS News Hour to talk about the political peril of disagreeing with your party. Rep. Mark Sanford, who lost his...

Coming at you from Seattle, where my body thinks the time is three hours later than it really is and the sky really is always gray except I caught a glimpse of blue just an hour after my arrival....

Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski is again pointing to the rapid changes her home state is experiencing due to climate change. Speaking at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, she called the...

Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan co-authored an opinion piece with Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam on state leadership on climate change. "Our most important job as governors is ensuring the safety...

This week as our nation paid respects to an American hero, it felt like we grew a little closer. Read on for my tribute to the quiet climate legacy of the late George H.W. Bush. This week's must...