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Greta Thunberg And Other Youth Climate Activists Speak Before The U S Congressional Select Committee On The Climate Crisis

Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, joined other youth leaders in the US climate movement to speak to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on Wednesday morning.  Thunberg has inspired young people all over the globe to take immediate and direct action to bring awareness of the existential threat of the climate crisis.  As a…

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It Used To Be Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park, Montana. At St. Mary’s on the east side of Glacier National Park we started up the Going-to-the-Sun-Road, that winds for fifty miles through steep, rugged terrain and ends on the west side of the park at West Glacier. There are ten mountain peaks over 10,000 feet, waterfalls that cascade down the sides…

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Natural Gas Is Not A Clean Burning Renewable Fuel

Natural gas is not a bridge to a clean, renewable economy. Its a dead end to a dangerously high level of carbon in the atmosphere. The big green and white Waste Management truck lumbered through the pleasant suburban neighborhood collecting trash from cans that lined the street.  Painted proudly in giant letters across its side was,…

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The US Conference of Mayors Votes to Support Policies to Reduce Climate Change and Sharply Rebukes the Trump White House for its Failures

By Brent Probinsky Honolulu, Hawaii – The US Conference of Mayors, representing 1,408 cities across the country, met in Honolulu last week and expressed broad support for local and national measures to address the dangers from the Climate Crisis.  US cities and metro areas account for 88% of the nation’s jobs and 91% of GDP and…

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Small Island Countries in the World’s Oceans are Threatened by Rising Seas

Eleuthera, Bahamas – Throughout the world’s vast oceans, small island countries from the Bahamas, 48 miles off the east coast of Florida, to Samoa in the South Pacific, face an existential threat from sea level rise caused by the Climate Crisis. It’s causing severe droughts in the U.S. Midwest, wild fires in California, major destructive hurricanes…

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Governor DeSantis Announces Policies to Protect Florida’s Environment but Fails to Address Climate Change as the Root Cause

Newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis recently issued an executive order to address the many serious environmental problems that directly threaten Florida.  In the state’s November election, the environment was a top issue for voters as red tide caused massive fish kills and turned away tourists who have long flocked to our beaches.  Blue-green algae clogged…