Getting traction on Green New Deal policies at the federal level won’t be easy—but new governors in the Midwest can make progress on climate and economic priorities right away. Here’s how.
Dear New Midwest Governors: The Green New Deal and You
James Gignac, lead Midwest energy analyst
December 20, 2018 2:53 PM EDT
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Will Koch Pull the Plug on Electric Cars?
Elliott Negin, senior writer
December 5, 2018 9:00 AM EDT
When multibillionaire industrialist Charles Koch perceives a potential threat to his fossil fuel empire, he doesn’t mess around. Koch wants to kill a federal income tax credit of up to $7,500 for electric vehicle (EV) buyers for the first 200,000 EVs each automaker sells. Although EVs make up less than 2 percent of total vehicle sales nationally, 123,000 of them were snapped up in the first six months of this year, more than twice the amount sold in all of 2015, and more carmakers are expected to introduce new EV models over the next few months. Alarm bells are going off at Koch Industries headquarters. Read more >
May Day, NYC, 2017. Photo: Alec Perkins CC-BY-2.0 (Flickr).
NCA4 warns climate change puts our workforce at risk. The case of Latinos shows what we can do about it.
November 30, 2018 1:35 PM EDT
Given that Latinos, along with other groups of color will continue to become a larger share of our workforce, and are more at risk than others to be seriously affected by the impacts of climate change, it is critical that as a society we invest to make them an economically-secure, healthy, and resilient workforce. Read more >
Will Cutting Carbon Emissions Increase MY Energy Bill? It doesn’t have to.
Joseph Daniel, Senior Energy Analyst
November 27, 2018 9:33 AM EDT
The assumption that cutting carbon will increase the costs of energy simply doesn’t hold true. Read more >
Hope and a 250-mile Bike Ride Through Colorado with a Mother-Daughter Duo
Melissa McShea Valentin, UCS Science Network, UCS
November 26, 2018 4:25 PM EDT
Melissa and Natalie Valentin are a mother-daughter duo devoted to sports and biking for the planet. But, with wildfires raging across the West and a president actively reversing our country’s progress on climate change, they have been finding it very hard to be hopeful about the future of the planet lately. Rather than give in to climate despair, they joined Climate Ride Colorado in order to meet other inspiring riders and to become a part of the Climate Ride community. They were looking to reinvigorate their optimism and activism by raising money for charities working on climate (one antidote to a lack of spending on our government’s part) and surrounding themselves by similarly committed activists. They hope that their story inspires you to fundraise for the Union of Concerned Scientists or other climate charities by registering at climateride.org.
