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Heist of the Century
When Montana's sole congressional representative, Ryan Zinke, was tapped by Donald Trump to head the Department of the Interior, people who cared about public lands didn't exactly jump for joy, but...
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School of Awe
Wikipedia describes a hero as someone who "combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength." Well, when it comes to climate action, we have adversity (and adversaries) to spare....
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Jumping Past Gas
On December 18, 1903, the front page of San Francisco's Daily Call newspaper led with stories about a presidential proclamation, an embezzlement scandal, and rising tensions between Russia and Japan....
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Time to Fire the Fireman
Like the fireman in Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451, whose job is to burn books rather than save them, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has perverted the Environmental Protection...
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Promised Land
It was in the summer of 1985 that I fell in love with the American West. This wasn't an ordinary summer teenage crush. I fell hard. Earlier that summer, my parents took me and my two older sisters and...
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Child Abuse
If you're angry and upset that our government is separating thousands of children from their families as they seek asylum from the violence in their countries, you're hardly alone. What Trump and his...
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Bad Will Hunting
When you visit Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, as my family and I did a couple weeks ago, you see something spectacular everywhere you look, whether it's towering peaks wreathed in cloud or...
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Meet the New Boss
The acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, seems determined to avoid the career missteps of his predecessor. Scott Pruitt, of course, finally got the boot from...
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Jerry Brown’s Last Challenge
If Donald Trump could take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as efficiently as he sucks oxygen out of the news cycle, the climate crisis would be solved faster than you can say “Mexico will pay for...
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How to Beat a Pipeline
As anyone who opposed Keystone XL between 2008 and 2016 knows, stopping a major pipeline isn't exactly easy even when the president actually cares about the environment. With fossil-fuel–fetishizing...
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A Golden Vision
It's been a rough year, on track to be the fourth-hottest ever, with a horrific wildfire season that never ends and an extreme storm season that's only just getting started. The climate crisis is no...
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Trump’s Most Dangerous Attack Yet
This week the Trump administration proposed its latest major attack on our national efforts to fight climate change -- a reversal of regulations for methane emissions, which are one of the most...
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Storm Warning
The heartbreaking stories and images of destruction in the Carolinas make it easy to feel that humans are helpless against nature's most powerful forces. No one can stop a hurricane. Unlike most...
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The Power of People Together
On November 6, Americans will go to the polls for what's sure to be seen as a referendum on the current administration. One thing about the past 22 months is already beyond dispute: They've been...
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Who’s Best at Being Bad for the Environment?
When presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to hire only "the best people," no one thought to ask him what they’d be best at. Trump himself has set standards for corruption, dishonesty, bullying,...
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