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How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility

Apr 18 2019 - 6:30pm

PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility giant into lawsuits, $30 billion in liabilities and, ultimately, bankruptcy. Under new state laws, regulated utilities will have a hard time avoiding blame in fires where their equipment is involved—so what’s ahead for PG&E’s peers and their shareholders when a deadly blaze could spell bankruptcy?

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Sea Changes: Why Oceans Play A Bigger Role in Climate Than You Think

Apr 23 2019 - 6:30pm

Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the planet to generating half of the oxygen we breathe, oceans are a vital part of sustaining life on Earth. Increasing their temperature as little as two degrees, however, has an opposite effect, threatening marine biodiversity and turbocharging dangerous hurricanes and typhoons.

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Republicans on Climate

Apr 30 2019 - 6:30pm

The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. Sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward Markey, the resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading Democrats — but are criticized by Republicans for being costly and unrealistic. With an increasing number of Green New Deal alternatives being put forward by Democrats, the pressure is on Republicans to propose an actionable climate plan of their own.

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David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth

May 6 2019 - 12:00pm

According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked — literally. In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will impact not just the planet, but human lives — including how a five degree increase in temperatures would make parts of the planet unsurvivable.

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Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?

May 7 2019 - 12:00pm

Produce, consume, dispose: if you’ve ever made a purchase, you’re familiar with the steps of a traditional linear economy. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods, and used — sometimes only once, in the case of your morning Starbucks — before turning into waste.

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If You Won’t, We Will: Youth Action on Climate

May 21 2019 - 6:30pm

Four years ago, 21 plaintiffs served the U.S. government with a lawsuit. The government, they asserted, had violated constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing to act on climate change. All plaintiffs were students under the age of 23.

On the other side of the world, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg initiated a global youth strike for climate, prompting 1.6 million students in over 120 countries left school in protest of adult inaction.

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