If the proposed rule is finalized, the U.S. would have weaker fuel-economy standards than the European Union, South Korea, India, Japan, China, and even Saudi Arabia.
“Climate change is the greatest threat of the twenty-first century,” an organizer of the youth climate march, on Saturday, said. “The way we live our lives is affecting people everywhere.”
Scott Pruitt’s replacement also has close ties to the fossil-fuel industry and a desire to destroy Obama’s climate-policy legacy. But he will likely be more effective.
With the sea level predicted to rise by more than a foot by the year 2045, Miami is bracing for a new future and finding strategies for resilience in ecology, urban planning, and community organizing.
Late Tuesday, just before midnight, Ocasio-Cortez was sitting alone at the back of a pool hall in the Bronx, looking stunned and radiant, like someone who had just won an Olympic race.
Opposing the Republican incumbent in the Nineteenth Congressional District is a full bank of fresh blood, each Democratic candidate seemingly more genial and accomplished than the last.
As their calendars fill with vigils, potlucks, and fund-raisers, the students of Santa Fe High School find outbursts of joy and a renewed sense of togetherness.
