Earth Day 2021: Awakened Not Woke
It’s Earth Day 2021, and I hope the world’s leaders will boldly go where none have gone before. I am optimistic.
It’s Earth Day 2021, and I hope the world’s leaders will boldly go where none have gone before. I am optimistic.
In a more perfect union, the federal government would be a better partner with state and local governments in the effort to slow, forestall, and adapt to Earth’s changing climate.
This first installment looks to provide a bit of historical and political context on the federal-state relationship regarding environmental matters and how it has changed over the past half-century.
Americans support the steps taken by the Biden administration thus far to tackle climate change by large margins, according to a new poll.
The fate of the United States has never been more linked—virally, environmentally, economically, and existentially—to the fate of the rest of the world.
A year more of gridlock on climate matters, including green infrastructure, would not only bring the nation closer to crossing the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold scientists warn of, but it could well fracture the Democratic Party.
Without at least some bipartisan backing, the on-again/off-again climate policy cycle will continue. Absent collaboration today, the future transition to a low-carbon economy will be desperate rather than measured.
Whether the transition to a low-carbon economy is a legal or political question, the answer is what it has always been—the working together of legislative and executive branches of governments.
What will the Biden-Harris administration mean for America’s energy transition, its relationship with the rest of the world, and for global action on climate?
I have come to believe that Udall was actually in many ways, a conservative whose creative ideas may help point America’s way forward in a turbulent, polarized, and destructive time. Above all, Udall was devoted to conserving the land and the beauty of the American landscape.
The momentum of the 2018 Congressional midterm elections in which the Democrats gained 42 seats and regained their majority status in the House of Representatives lost steam in 2020.
On January 5, 2021, Georgia voters will again be casting ballots to fill both of its US Senate seats. The outcome of the Peach State’s balloting is second in importance only to November’s presidential contest.