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21 months. That’s how long it took to strip away decades of climate protections. 26 days. That’s how long until we get a say in what happens next. We’ve covered the Trump administration’s climate record one headline at a time. Before you vote- as if you needed more reasons to vote- we want to remind…

Our recent conversation with Jessica Craven, community organizer and author of the Chop Wood, Carry Water newsletter, explored how the climate crisis is shaping the 2026 midterm elections and why hope is something we build through action. We discussed how high gas and diesel prices, pollution, and corruption are opening new conversations with voters in…

Picture the air your kids breathe on the walk to school. The river you swam in as a kid. The summers that used to feel like summer. The rooftop down the street that now makes its own power. None of it is guaranteed. Every bit of it is shaped by the people we elect: who…

Somewhere in your fridge, a bag of spinach is quietly becoming a climate problem.It has company. The world threw away 1.05 billion tons of food in 2022. That’s more than a billion meals a day. Food loss and waste now drive 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s nearly five times the…

Good news, everyone! Carbon pollution has been solved — from the fossil fuel industry’s point of view. On Monday, at a G20 summit branded “Energy Abundance“, the EPA finalized the repeal of the 2024 rule that required the country’s coal and new gas plants to capture most of their carbon. The EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, called this the largest power-sector deregulatory action…

On September 2, the UN officially gave up. Not on the climate fight. But on the target. UNEP’s new report, Limiting Overshoot, is the first UN document to treat exceeding 1.5°C not as a risk to avoid, but as a decided fact. We’re likely to cross the 1.5°C threshold within the next few years. Even in the report’s rosiest scenario, with…

Our recent conversation with Leah Stokes, political scientist and Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara, explored the improbable path that led to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in U.S. history. We discussed how a fractured coalition regrouped to pass the law with exactly 50…