A New Call to National Climate Action
Minutes after opening the 116th Congress last week, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a stirring call to national action on what she called “th…
Come Tuesday, Let’s Bring It
Illustration: Jorge Colombo For nearly two years, we’ve seen President Trump wage the worst White House assault in history on our environment and health. Rolli…
Tropical Storm Harvey: Another American Deluge
As we lend our immediate support to Gulf Coast communities, we must also protect people from such future disasters by addressing infrastructure, safety measure…
Scott Pruitt Defends the Indefensible
The budget testimony from the EPA Administrator leaves us wondering who exactly is protecting our environment and health. On the basis of congressional testimo…
A Budget That Scorches the Planet
President Trump opened a new front in his assault on our environment and health on Tuesday, releasing detailed budget proposals that amount to a scorched-earth…
The election is over. Our resolve isn’t.
The American people have spoken. They delivered a sweeping rejection of business as usual in Washington. They voted for change. They voted for something that, …
Will we turn our back on the world?
On Friday, four days before Election Day, the Paris global climate accord takes effect, setting the United States, China and more than 185 other countries on t…
A vote for Gary Johnson is a vote against the environment
Americans under 30 are far more concerned about climate change and limiting carbon emissions than the general population, so it doesn’t make sense that recent …
Hillary Clinton: The Leader We Need
Over the next two weeks, Republican and Democratic leaders will gather in Cleveland and Philadelphia for the quadrennial exercise in partisan persuasion and po…
Hillary Clinton for President
In 160 days, voters will face a choice between two major party nominees in the 2016 U.S. presidential contest: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Only one of th…