January 19th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
In 2015, a group of young Americans, some of them only 7 or 8 years old, sued the United States government, claiming the federal government "through its affirmative actions in creating a national energy system that causes climate change, is depriving them of their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, and has failed to protect essential public trust resources." That's according to Our Children's Trust, which is sponsoring the suit. The "public trust" theory was first conceived by OCT attorney Julia Olson
October 29th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Politics is a weird beast. Policymakers are elected in order to enact policies to help society, but politics is largely a cultural war — or even just a series of cult of personality battles. Policy is hardly touched in the lead-up to elections, and people typically go to the polls without having learned much about the policies their representatives have supported or the policies the candidates they're voting on would like to implement
March 2nd, 2018 | by James Ayre
The looting and destruction of the Amazon region appears to be accelerating by the year -- with it looking increasingly likely that the Amazon forest may be largely gone by the time the youngest of those reading this kick the bucket.
July 15th, 2016 | by Sandy Dechert
Air quality improvements associated with policies such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan go a long way toward [&hellip
March 17th, 2016 | by Jeremy Bloom
Originally published on Red Green & Blue This morning, President Barack Obama (yes, he’s still President for almost a year) [&hellip
February 15th, 2016 | by Guest Contributor
Originally published on Climate Reality Project. Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision was a setback for US efforts to fight climate change, [&hellip
October 22nd, 2015 | by Rocky Mountain Institute
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Ian Kelly and Peter Bronski Last week the Supreme Court of the United States [&hellip
June 30th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Last week’s progressive winning streak at the Supreme Court ended Monday as SCOTUS ruled on regulations about emissions of mercury [&hellip
