The Republican-controlled legislature twiddles its thumbs when not actively blocking reasonable measures to cut the emissions that contribute to warming. So Gov. Roy Cooper has stepped up.
To raise the region’s voice on sea-level rise, local governments must give business leaders the kind of detail they need to sway political leaders to pay attention and create a plan for what’s headed our way.
There are some hopeful signs that Congress may finally get around to enacting a carbon tax sometime in the next two years. Sooner would be better than later.
The federal Liberal government is firmly on the right side of what is shaping up to be one of the main issues in next fall’s election, putting a national price on carbon.
Bald eagles' success shows that the Endangered Species Act remains necessary and should not be substantially weakened, as the Trump administration proposes.
We are careening and gasping toward disaster, as the official U.S. policy is to leave a charred hellscape, crafted by an emperor without clothes who will jeopardize life itself for the political present. At least now he admits it.
The nation's attention has moved on from Hurricane Florence, but the storm has left a toxic legacy in the Carolinas, where lax environmental laws and a warming planet are proving to be a bad combination.
