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How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
The absence of clear and broad constitutional authority to protect the environment limits the scope of federal environmental law. Even a healthy U.S. democracy would struggle to respond effectively to...
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Trump-Appointed Judges Grant DOJ Request to Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case
Apanel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the...
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The Heat’s On – Big Time!
“Nearly nineteen thousand (19,000) weather stations have notched record high temperatures since Jan. 1.” (Source: Earth’s Record Hot Streak Might be a Sign of a New Climate Era, The Washington Post,...
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A World in Crisis Requires We Recover the Common Good Beginning in the Places...
A world going in the wrong direction The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they...
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Sustainable Food Systems, Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Brussels is currently not the most hopeful place for those wishing to see EU food systems in a fair, ecological transition. But hope is on the ground. Not waiting for the impetus to come from above,...
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Climate, Energy and Natural Resources
Speech by Jason Hickel, Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, at the 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana. Thank you to PI for organizing this event, and thank you to our Cuban hosts,...
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The End Of The World
A sobering article published in The Guardian yesterday has gotten me thinking, not for the first time, about why, despite difficult odds and repeated disappointments, I and many others keep plugging...
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Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I’ll Help You Wreck the Planet
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a straightforward offer to some of the top fossil fuel executives in the United States during a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club last month,...
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Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference
When I registered to attend last month’s United Nations conference in Canada, organizers insisted it would be a “plastic free meeting.” I wouldn’t even get a see-through sleeve for my name tag, they...
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UN Report: Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year
Extreme climate shocks, intensified by global warming, killed hundreds of people and devastated livelihoods and ecosystems across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, scientists with the World...
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Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local...
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77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said. Nearly 80% of top-level climate scientists expect that global temperatures...
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Climate Crisis-Driven Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Warnings in US
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted air quality warnings for some states in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Although wildfires in Canada have not yet reached levels seen during last year’s...
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UK Professor Condemns Own University Over Collaboration With Oil Giant
A senior professor has accused his own university of betraying its values by working with ExxonMobil on a project that has been condemned as greenwash. Ian Williams, professor in applied environmental...
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The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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Local News Is Vital: Can We Survive the Climate Crisis Without It?
Local news has its finger on the pulse of our communities. When city council acts (or acts up), when disaster strikes, when corruption or scandal needs to be scrutinized, local news steps up. From our...
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11,000% Return: Trump’s $1 Billion Offer Could Yield $110 Billion Windfall...
A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year “quid pro quo” offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company’s could, if they agreed to...
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Thirsty in Paradise: Water Crises Are a Growing Problem Across the Caribbean...
In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind the images of balmy beaches and lush hotel grounds lies a crisis, the likes of which its residents have...
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Denser Housing Can Be Greener Too
Cities across Aotearoa New Zealand are trying to solve a housing crisis, with increasing residential density a key solution. But not everyone is happy about the resulting loss of natural habitats and...
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Big Oil and Civilization Don’t Mix
Prologue On May 10, 2024, my friend Jay Jones, emeritus professor of biology at La Verne University, invited me to see a documentary he was presenting to his students and colleagues. The documentary,...
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