Is the Green New Deal Dead?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Technically the Green New Deal (GND) has yet to live as a formal legislative proposal as compared to “a sense of resolution.” Therefore, any reports of its demise would be premature.

The Worst Reason to Oppose the Green New Deal

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

I would even venture that climate change is becoming one of the topics most talked about—or like religion and politics not to be talked about—around dinner tables. I credit the rising tide of youth activism for this rather sudden reversal of fortune.

After 40 Years of Government Inaction on Climate, Have We Finally Turned a Corner?

By Gus Speth, Fran Korten, YES! magazine

We’re up against the huge power of the fossil fuel industry; the extraordinary ideological opposition to the federal government doing anything important; money going into disinformation campaigns that people readily bought into. And it’s still going on.

Beware Republicans Bearing Environmental Gifts

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Whatever one thinks of the GND, it has succeeded in making climate change a hot topic of discussion throughout much of the nation. Given climate is on the agenda of every Democratic presidential contender and a popular topic of derision by many conservative politicians and cable pundits, the climate discussion will not be going away anytime soon.

New Study on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization Should be Climate Wake-up Call

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

A new study finds that it was a severe and long-lasting megadrought that destroyed the great Mayan civilization a thousand years ago. But the research has ominous relevance for us today...

Fossil Fuel Industry Spent Nearly $2 billion to Kill U.S. Climate Action, New Study Finds

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

Climate action has been repeatedly drowned by a devastating surge and flood of money from the fossil fuel industry — nearly $2 billion in lobbying since 2000 alone.

An Election Year To-Do List for Climate Defenders–The Canaries Go Tweet, Tweet, Tweet-Part 2

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

This column, like others in the Canaries in the Coal Mine series, is intended to raise early warnings of dangers that might be lurking beyond the immediate attention of clean energy advocates and climate defenders. Today’s tale continues the discussion about the 2018 midterm elections and what they could mean for federal clean energy and climate policies and programs. c

Renewable Energy Tax Credits in the Age of Trump

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Efforts by the White House and Congress to enact tax reforms are posing clear and present dangers to existing renewable energy tax credits. The House and Senate versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 differ in their impacts. Should the final legislation more closely resemble the House version of the legislation, the negative impacts will be especially felt by the wind and electric vehicle industries.

Activists Condemn Failure of COP23 to Address Interrelated Crises of Climate, Energy & Inequality

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

On the last day of the United Nations climate summit in Bonn, Germany, we get a wrap-up on negotiations. This year is the first COP since President Trump vowed to pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate deal, a process which takes four years.

Children File Suit Against Trump Administration for Ignoring Climate Dangers

By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog

Two Pennsylvania children and a Philadelphia-based environmental organization filed suit on Monday against the Trump administration for its gutting of climate regulations, laws, and policies—actions which show the government's "reckless and deliberate indifference to the established clear and present dangers of climate change."