America has a food waste problem: Rotten tomatoes and pizza boxes end up in trash dumps and produce a potent planet-heating gas called methane. Massachusetts has a fix: A state regulation requires businesses to keep […]
Tag: Global Warming
Why These Islanders Hunt Dolphins
The call of a conch shell roused the dolphin hunters from their beds. Under moonlight, the six men shuffled to the village church. There a priest led them in a whispered prayer, his voice barely […]
Why Al Gore Is Shifting His Climate Activism Abroad
Al Gore, who served as vice president for eight years before becoming a full-time climate activist, knows something about presidential power. And in recent weeks, Gore has watched with alarm as President Trump stretches the […]
Trump Said Auto Emissions Don’t Affect the Environment. That’s Not True.
President Trump announced on Monday that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment.” But decades of science show that […]
She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.
Fresh out of law school in 2022, Rachel Rothschild wrote a memo laying out the legal justification for a new strategy to fight climate change: States could force oil and gas companies to pay for […]
