Environment

P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 2, 2018
The Supreme Court of the United States opened its spectacular new session by hearing a case so absurd, many people might wonder why it’s a matter for…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 25, 2018
  What a hero. On September 20, California Governor Jerry Brown ponied up to the bar and signed California’s “straw statute”, a “law” that will…
Geoffrey | September 12, 2018
On the July 18, 2006 edition of NBC's Today show, then correspondent Ann Curry trudged through flood-ravaged New Orleans to promote Brad Pitt's…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 24, 2018
My husband and I sat down in a booth at our local sports bar yesterday, both craving a burger and, for once, hungry enough to ignore the calorie…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 21, 2018
The Trump administration plans to announce a massive rollback of the Obama-era “Clean Power Plan” that placed strict limits on carbon emissions for…
Caleb Tolin | August 15, 2018
U.S. cities including Seattle, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, along with entire countries like the United Kingdom, have made moves to ban single-…
Brittany M. Hughes | July 25, 2018
Santa Barbara just enacted the most restrictive ban in the country on terrifying, deadly…plastic straws. According to this, the California city just…
Brittany M. Hughes | March 8, 2018
For the first time ever, a federal judge has ordered a court hearing specifically focused on the science behind man-made global warming. U.S.…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 25, 2018
According to this, eating sandwiches is now killing the planet. Seriously. I can’t make this stuff up. Apparently, researchers in the U.K. have…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 25, 2018
If you’re a waiter at a California Applebee’s who dares offer your customers a plastic straw to go with their size-regulated soft drink, that mere…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 15, 2017
NBC – which is still a national major media outlet, mind you – ran the following headline written by a guy named Travis Rieder, who, according to his…
Bryan Michalek | September 6, 2017
About four years ago, UC Santa Cruz art professor Elizabeth Stephens set out on a journey that would lead to a documentary film and an exponential…