Michael Bloomberg to plunge $500M into clean energy effort – 6/7/2019

By Julie Pace WASHINGTON — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy. The billionaire Bloomberg’s investment in the Beyond Carbon initiative marks the largest ever philanthropic effort to combat …

Oregon is poised to set a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a huge deal. – 6/5/2019

By David Roberts The Pacific Northwest is becoming a veritable hotbed of climate policy. Just months after Washington state passed a comprehensive package of climate bills, its neighbor Oregon is on the verge of passing a fateful bill of its own, one that would have repercussions far beyond the region. The Clean Energy Jobs Bill (HB 2020A) was voted through by the Oregon …

Government argues for halt to youth climate lawsuit, saying there is no constitutional right to a stable climate – 6/4/2019

By Brady Dennis A group of young Americans who have spent nearly four years trying to compel the federal government to take action on climate change found themselves back in court Tuesday, arguing that their unprecedented lawsuit should move forward. And the Trump administration, like the Obama administration before it, was there to argue once again that the lawsuit should …

The Climate Kids Are All Right – 4/21/2019

By Chris D’Angelo It didn’t take long for the death threats to start. Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old environmental activist, had just been featured in an Agence France-Presse article republished by Breitbart News about dozens of students staging a “die-in” at United Nations headquarters in New York. Villaseñor was protesting that day in mid-March for the same reason that she decided …

Portland, Oregon passes a Tax to Fund Clean Energy Initiatives – 1/30/2019

By Katelyn Newman IN A ROBIN HOOD-ESQUE attempt, residents of Oregon‘s biggest city will tax their largest corporations to fund clean energy projects that they believe will help some of the most vulnerable populations become more adaptable to climate change and help the city to meet its clean energy goals. In November, Portland voters passed a first-of-its-kind ballot measure that will impose a 1 …

Want Proof Climate Change Is Here? Look At Oregon In 2018, Report Says – 2/1/2019

By David Steves Climate change is playing out in significant ways in Oregon, with evidence in the form of more severe wildfires, lower summer stream flows and diminishing winter snowpacks, according to the state’s fourth annual climate assessment report. The report, issued Thursday by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, made it clear that climate change is no longer something to discuss …