Tag: Climate Change

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to several thousand people at a climate strike rally Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, in Denver. The rally was staged in Denver's Civic Center Park.

Energy and Environment

‘Jury is out’: Some climate hawks question whether Greta Thunberg phenomenon will help curb emissions

Josh Siegel · December 12, 2019 5:00 am

Brett Kavanaugh, appeals court judge, speaks after being nominated as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 9, 2018. TrumpÂ said he would nominate Kavanaugh for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, a choice that could create the most conservative court in generations and threaten landmark rulings including the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision.

Energy and Environment

Climate activists accuse UN of bullying protesters at Madrid talks

Abby Smith · December 11, 2019 9:43 pm

Energy and Environment

‘I was once that kid in the street’: John Kerry looks to enlist youth protesters in ‘World War Zero’ on climate change

Abby Smith · December 11, 2019 7:48 pm

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg attends a climate march, in Turin, Italy, Friday. Dec. 13, 2019. Thunberg was named this week Time's Person of the Year, despite becoming the figurehead of a global youth movement pressing governments for faster action on climate change. in Turin, Italy, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019.

‘A global movement by skipping school’: Time names Greta Thunberg Person of the Year

John Gage · December 11, 2019 1:52 pm

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg addresses the media during a press conference in Plymouth, England, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. The 16-year-old climate change activist who has inspired student protests around the world will leave Plymouth, England, bound for New York in a high-tech but low-comfort sailboat.

Beltway Confidential

Greta Thunberg is Time’s Person of the Year even though she admits she’s accomplished ‘basically nothing’

Kaylee McGhee White · December 11, 2019 10:26 am

Greta Thunberg walks in the Marina where the boat Malizia is moored in Plymouth, England Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. PETA picked her as their "role model of the year" before Time tagged her as "person of the year."

Greta Thunberg among finalists for Time’s Person of the Year

Dominick Mastrangelo · December 10, 2019 6:28 pm

In this Aug. 5, 2014 file photo, Michael Bloomberg welcomes leaders to the U.S.-Africa Business Forum during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. The former New York Mayor is returning to lead the financial data and news company he founded in 1981 but left to serve three terms in City Hall. Bloomberg LP said Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, current CEO Daniel Doctoroff will step down at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)

Energy and Environment

Bloomberg eyes ‘climate candidate’ title with whirlwind UN tour

Abby Smith · December 10, 2019 4:58 pm

This April 29, 2014 photo shows an Exxon sign at a Exxon gas station in Carnegie, Pa. Exxon Mobil Corp. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Energy and Environment

Exxon wins first-of-its-kind climate change case against New York

Josh Siegel · December 10, 2019 3:25 pm

A plastic dumpster bin melts as it is enveloped in flames. Another plastic bin sits beside it.

‘Existential’ is the ‘dumpster fire’ of 2019. Like, literally

Wayne Laugesen · December 6, 2019 5:00 am

Chris Pratt slammed for utilizing single-use plastic water bottle

Ellie Bufkin · December 4, 2019 7:53 pm

Beltway Confidential

They say otherwise, but corporations don’t seem afraid of climate change

Jason Orestes · December 3, 2019 6:04 pm

Captain of Greta Thunberg’s sailboat foils ‘zero emissions’ plans by flying to US

Madison Dibble · December 2, 2019 11:28 pm