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Who cashes in after a wildfire?

by Matt Sedlar Driving around parts of southern El Dorado County, Calif., you can’t miss the trucks. Everywhere near the areas ravaged by the 2021 Caldor fire that leveled the community of Grizzly Flats, you see semis hauling trees and Ford F-150s with their company ...

Republicans finally weighed in on climate change

The U.S. lost massive ground in combating climate change during the Trump administration, a recent report says. Now, congressional Republicans are offering their own climate plan — which doesn’t actually do anything new — while slamming President Joe Biden for climate shortfalls GOP ...

Guest essay: Savings should be passed to patients

Funds shouldn’t be used for climate change By Elliot Simon Sen. Joe Manchin spent much of last year battling the Democrats’ multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” package. Thankfully that monstrosity of a bill is largely behind us. But now, Manchin is putting forward ...

Guest essay: With W.Va. v. EPA, a livable future is in jeopardy

by Maura Ross Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its yearly report warning of the dangers humanity faces if we fail to act quickly and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. On the exact same day as this report’s release, the United States Supreme Court ...

Can Gen Z save the Earth? Or will we destroy it first?

The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. In the 52 years since that first celebration, we — all of humanity — have actively done more to harm the environment than we have to protect it. If that weren’t the case, climate scientists wouldn’t be ringing the alarm every other month that ...