Texas Voters Support Climate Action

Ahead of the third Democratic primary debate in Houston, Texas, a new survey finds Texas voters support a broad array of policies to address climate impacts and shift the state from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and they want their elected officials to support those policies as well. CONT. – […] Read more »

Big Pharma Sinks to the Bottom of U.S. Industry Rankings

The pharmaceutical industry is now the most poorly regarded industry in Americans’ eyes, ranking last on a list of 25 industries that Gallup tests annually. Americans are more than twice as likely to rate the pharmaceutical industry negatively (58%) as positively (27%), giving it a net-positive score of -31. The […] Read more »

This is why Congress remains deadlocked on climate and guns

There’s a political dynamic that virtually guarantees Congress will remain locked in a contentious stalemate over gun violence like the weekend’s mass shooting in Texas and the risk of climate change embodied in the ferocious Hurricane Dorian menacing the Southeast United States. Both issues highlight the effective veto over legislation […] Read more »

Bernie Sanders’ new climate plan asks Democrats: Do you want a revolution or not?

The massive scope and cost of Bernie Sanders’ new “Green New Deal” plan to confront climate change encapsulates both the potential appeal and limits of the Vermont senator’s uncompromising presidential campaign. The $16.3 trillion, 10-year climate plan he released last week envisions a rapid and comprehensive transformation of a key […] Read more »

Why haven’t we stopped climate change? We’re not wired to empathize with our descendants.

About 70 percent of Americans believe that the climate is changing, most acknowledge that this change reflects human activity, and more than two-thirds think it will harm future generations. Unless we dramatically alter our way of life, swaths of the planet will become hostile or uninhabitable later this century — […] Read more »