Harnessing ocean waves for grid-scale electricity production would be a major boon to the clean energy industry. Now, an influx of federal funding is helping U.S. companies test wave energy technologies, giving hope that wave power will see massive growth over the next few decades.
Details on the permitting reform demanded by Senator Manchin remain scant. Many fear it could prove a giveaway to fossil fuel companies. The majority leader seems determined to see it through, despite ever more Democrats expressing their skepticism.
Unity between labor and environmentalists are forged by fighting for local projects, as well as broader initiatives. Many environmental justice groups believe working-class communities shouldn't have to shoulder costs of a crisis they didn't create.
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The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.
Flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a long line of climate disasters. Now the 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi were ordered to evacuate as flooding hit the city. This weekend, temperatures in California are projected to hit 115°F.
Thank the people who put their bodies on the line to block new fossil fuel infrastructure – without their grassroots embargo of the Mountain Valley pipeline, for instance, Schumer might not have had the leverage to finally coax Manchin on board.
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Only a decisive defeat of Putinism — with its toxic mix of despotism, corruption, right-wing nationalism, and devil-may-care extractivism — would offer the world some sliver of hope when it comes to restoring some measure of planetary balance.
Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.
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