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The Case for Permitting Reform
At $369 billion, the recent Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the single biggest investment to fight climate change in American history....
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Nov 29, 20224 min read


The Environmental Movement Must Not Let Concerns about Air Pollution Fall to the Wayside
Air pollution kills somewhere between 90,000 and 360,000 Americans every year, making it one of the leading causes of death in the United...
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Nov 13, 20214 min read


Radicalism and Revolution: An Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (b. 1942) is a retired law professor from Northwestern University and the former leader of the Weather Underground...
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Feb 20, 20215 min read


Drill, Baby, Drill: An environmentalist case for deep sea mining
Unlikely as it may seem in our current moment of political paralysis, consider the following thought experiment: A rare tide of reason...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Zero-Waste Lands
These days, recycling is out, and recycling cynicism is in. In 2017, that cynicism peaked when China axed a decades-long agreement to...
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Jan 4, 20204 min read


Something Seedy: The Conflicting Roles of Science in Environmentalism
Among the hundreds of thousands of protesters who descended upon our nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington, dozens –...
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May 10, 20175 min read


Conservatism and Conservation: A Case for Environmentalism
Rick Perry, Republican governor of Texas and former candidate for the United States presidency, speaking about regulation on oil and gas...
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Sep 30, 20142 min read


We (Were) All In This Together: What Happened to Addressing Climate Change?
When “An Inconvenient Truth” came out in 2006, introducing the severity of climate change to a mass audience, it seemed like the new buzz...
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Mar 5, 20146 min read


Sanity and Science Sorely Needed in the Climate Change Debate
This week, President Obama delivered a speech in which he outlined new measures to combat climate change. These include reductions in the...
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Jun 28, 20133 min read
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