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Our overheating planet is splitting the Grand Old Party. Recent surveys suggest that Generation Z and Millennial Republicans care about the climate much more than their elders — and, get this, maybe as much as younger Democrats do.
read moreOver a marathon seven hours on Wednesday, 10 of the Democratic presidential candidates participated in back-to-back CNN town hall events on climate change, fielding questions from audience members and several of the network’s top anchors.
read moreThe Trump administration wants to allow a pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail on federal lands. Congress should say no.
read moreAgency proposes to allow industrial ocean fish farm discharge of untreated fish waste and other toxins directly into Gulf of Mexico
read moreIt seems like every Democratic presidential candidate wants to get farmers sucking carbon out of the air and sticking it in the ground.
read moreThe US Department of Agriculture (USDA) prevented the release of a plan for how the agency can effectively respond to the impacts of climate change, such as by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through practices like increasing carbon storage in crops and soils.
read moreThe state’s Republican-controlled legislature remains an obstacle to big changes, so the administration is looking for work-arounds and short-term wins.
read morePeppered with complaints from farmers fed up with President Trump’s trade war, Sonny Perdue found his patience wearing thin. Mr. Perdue, the agriculture secretary and the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering in southern Minnesota this month, tried to break the ice with a joke.
read moreAnother week of shaking our heads and wondering how much longer we can survive him. Yet again, Donald Trump overwhelmed practically everything with the force of his obscene personality, running his mouth and his thumbs even while he was failing to run the country in any sort of conventional sense.
read moreThe 2020 presidential contender tells Mother Jones about his $16 trillion proposal to save the planet.
read moreInternational concern is growing over the rapidly spreading fires that are destroying large swaths of the Amazon rainforest
read moreEnvironmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt ‘extinction plan.’
read moreEarlier this month, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report highlighting the enormous environmental impact of agriculture. But the report also pointed to a clear way for us to feed more mouths without causing more planetary destruction: We can stop wasting food.
read moreOne year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20
read moreAmerica Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.
read moreHe’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.
read moreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission.
read moreAustralia — The vast, untapped coal reserve in northeastern Australia had for years been the object of desire for the Indian industrial giant Adani.
read moreFarmers facing record bankruptcies and collapsing incomes due to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China were not amused by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s joke about their economic pain during an event in Minnesota last week.
read moreThe changes also let the government consider economic interests and could open doors to oil and gas drilling and mining in sensitive areas, including the Arctic.
read moreA coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants.
read moreWater issues are becoming more prevalent around the country even as the EPA says it is prioritizing the issue.
read moreWhen election time comes next year, Will Galloway, a student and Republican youth leader at Clemson University, will look for candidates who are strong on the mainstream conservative causes he cares about most, including gun rights and opposing abortion.
read moreOn July 1, 2019, the boards members of Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Earth Action passed a resolution calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to begin an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump.
read moreThere were 12 minutes of climate discussion Tuesday night.
read moreJust hours before President Donald Trump took to the stage in Greenville, North Carolina and unleashed more racist vitriol against Rep. Ilhan Omar and other progressive members of Congress, 137 House Democrats joined a united Republican caucus on Wednesday to kill articles of impeachment that sought to hold the president accountable for sparking “fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.”
read moreRecently, Republicans have demonstrated a huge amount of concern over the idea that there might be someone in Congress who holds anti-Semitic views.
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