Climate-Related News
New Dems Press for Green New Deal Now
Incoming Democrats are building support for an ambitious climate plan. At this point, 18 members of Congress, including our Rep. Jared Huffman, are calling for a new select committee able to draft comprehensive legislation for a Green New Deal…
Scientists: 12 Years to Avoid a Catastrophic Climate
A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought…
California Targets 100% Carbon-Free Electricity by 2045
California became the largest economy on Earth to plan a complete transition to the use of 100% carbon-free electricity with passage of California Senate Bill 100 today…
California’s Fiery Wake-up Call from Climate
The nation’s most populous state and the world’s fifth-largest economy is on fire. The Mendocino Complex fire is now the largest in California’s history, having burned an area about the size of Los Angeles…
Antarctic Melting Faster Than Expected
A comprehensive study published Wednesday says the planet’s largest ice sheet is losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year — a threefold increase from what it was less than a decade ago….
350Marin Joins #ShutDownChase Action
350Marin and its allies are proud to have #ShutDownChase with 350 Seattle and all the other 350 groups around the country on May 7th…
California Says No to Trump Offshore Oil
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who chairs the California Lands Commission, said “I am resolved that not a single drop from Trump’s new oil plan ever makes landfall in California”…
Louisiana Prepares to Evacuate Its Coastal Floodplain
Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware…
MCE Celebrates Marin’s First for California
MCE Clean Energy, Marin’s local community choice energy provider, issued a press release celebrating Marin as the first county in California to have 100% renewable electricity for all of its county, town, and city municipal accounts…