Why Suburbs Must Be the Next Frontier for Cities Policy
The challenge of suburbs for social and environmental policy.
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Why Not Start Saving the Biosphere by Outlawing Private Jets?
A forcing device for how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in one industry
Read more...A Serious Green New Deal Would Take Up One-Third of the Economy—Are We Ready for That?
Looking at some of the ramifications of a Green New Deal.
Read more...How the Peak Oil Story Could Be “Close,” But Not Quite Right
An in-depth look at the “peak oil” thesis and how well its predictions are playing out.
Read more...Minnesota Winters Ain’t What They Used To Be
Wimpy winters are the new normal.
Read more...Global Gains on Right to Repair
The right to repair movement is growing — not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well.
Read more...How This Oil Refiners Group Rallied GOP Governors’ Support for Trump’s Rollback of Auto Standards
The story of how oil refiners group marshalled the support of Republican governors behind the Trump administration’s rollback of CAFE auto emissions standards.
Read more...IEA Chief: EVs Are Not The End Of The Oil Era
Why EVs are way overhyped as a way to reduce oil use.
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Politics
Why AOC’s Select Committee for a Green Deal Deal would be an electoral winner.
Read more...8 Percent of Americans Recently Changed Their Minds on Climate. What Gives?
If you’re trying to get someone to open their mind, you might consider the idea of a having tough, nuanced conversation … and actually hearing them out.
Read more...The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty
Diet has now become political. But will the food industry support more sustainable diets, particularly for low income consumers?
Read more...Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Ocean Cleanup Array to Arrive Today in Hilo for Necessary Repairs
Ocean Cleanup Array arrives today in Hilo for necessary repairs; not yet clear that the system will succeed in collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Policy
A close reading of Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for a Green New Deal.
Read more...Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
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