In defending his generation’s response to pollution, a writer ignored decades of negligence on climate.
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Posted inNation & World, New England
Mainer among 4 activists arrested trying to block coal-carrying train
The group Climate Disobedience Center has held several protests recently trying to stop coal shipments to the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire.
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Posted inNation & World, News
We can’t afford another lost decade for climate, scientists warn
The average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – ‘the only number that matters,’ – is already the highest in human history.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Post-Madrid hopes overshadowed by big polluters’ failure to make real progress
This month’s COP 25 summit left much work for nations, organizations, churches and individuals to get the world to net zero by 2050.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine should take part in regional effort to cut transportation pollution
The Transportation and Climate Initiative will deliver economic, health and environmental benefits.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, New England
Eastern states draft pact to cut emissions from cars and trucks
Such a plan would be overseen on the state level through a system requiring large fuel distributors to pay varying amounts to support a transportation investment fund, depending on how much pollution their fuels would produce.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Scientists suggest fertility control as a way to combat climate change. Now that’s alarming.
The fact is that the world’s most disenfranchised people contribute very little to greenhouse-gas emissions.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Trump’s trolling of Greta Thunberg was petty bullying, but she is fair game for criticism
The climate activist is a public figure, and her age shouldn’t give her a blanket exemption from disapproval.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: It’s not too late to listen to climate science
Decades-old climate models predicted how things would go, and newer ones tell us where we’re going if we don’t act.
Posted inNation & World, News
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time ‘Person of the year’
The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Thunberg is the youngest person to be named Time’s ‘Person of the year.’