How do you change the minds of climate deniers and people -- say the President -- who doubt the scientific process in general? We ask a philosopher of science for some answers.
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It was substantive. And it was long. Leah Stokes, a professor of environmental politics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, read all the candidates' climate plans, watched all 7 hours, and has a lot to say about it all.
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A top climate scientist resigned from the Agriculture Department this month. Lewis Ziska says the USDA buried his research.
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The nation's nuclear fleet is aging. What should we do about it?
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The Trump administration has rolled back more than 80 environmental regulations but some states are fighting back. No state has been more successful in the resistance against Trump's environmental deregulations than California.
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He made the claim that he’s leading the world in environmental leadership. Sounds like gaslighting to us.
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It's here: President Trump's not-so-ambitious plan to deal with climate change. So now what?
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There wasn't a single question about global warming in the 2016 presidential debates. Will 2020 be different?
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An energy future with zero carbon emissions seems like a reasonable goal in light of the recent dire climate warnings. But is it even feasible? And what would it take to get there?
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Once upon a time politicians from both parties endorsed taking actions to avert what was by then understood to be an existential problem for humanity. So what happened?
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It’s been a week of big changes — and turmoil — at the Environmental Protection Agency. First, President Trump ordered a freeze on EPA grants and contracts and barred anyone at the agency from communicating with the public. Then, in a stance which flies in the face of the agency’s current scientific integrity policy, a White House official announced that EPA research may be subject to review by the administration. Seriously, you keeping up? So to get some perspective on it all, we reached out to Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the EPA under George W. Bush.
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