• Ocean

Elizabeth Warren Releases “Blue New Deal”

• Blue New Deal
• Elizabeth Warren
• fisheries
• ocean conservation
• oceans
• offshore wind

The UN climate meeting currently underway in Madrid, Spain, known as COP25, is being called the Blue COP, to highlight its focus on oceans and the climate. Oceans play an outsized role in regulating our climate and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren took the opportunity to release a Blue New Deal–her plan to address ocean […]

• Climate Change

Warren’s New Plan Would Punish Exxon for Lying to Regulators

• 2020
• climate action
• Elizabeth Warren
• Exxon

Yesterday, presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan (!) calling for companies who have misled federal regulators to be prosecuted under a new corporate perjury law.

She also singled out Exxon as her example, tying in climate change to her signature anti-corruption platform.

• Politics

Lawmakers Begin to Value Indigenous Knowledge of Ecosystems

• Elizabeth Warren
• Environmental Justice
• indigenous people
• Native Americans
• wildfire

The risk of wildfires in California and across much of the West is an escalating problem during the summers and dry fall season. Unfortunately, measures to prevent these fires (like the PG&E blackout fiasco last week) haven’t been very effective and have left officials scrambling for solutions. Although we’ve known that Native tribes have managed […]

• Politics

On Climate Change, Senator Warren Has a New Plan — Inslee’s Old Plan

• clean energy
• climate change
• Elizabeth Warren
• Jay Inslee

Last night, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is known for having a plan for everything, put out a “new” climate-related plan — that is basically Jay Inslee’s clean energy plan.

• Politics

One 2020 thing: Elizabeth Warren IN for a climate change debate

• 2020
• Elizabeth Warren

During selfie lines, people often press notes into my hands to explain why they’re in this fight. Last week in VA, I got a note asking if I support a climate debate. Yes! We need to do everything we can to save our planet. Thanks @usclimatestrike and @MoveOn for leading this. pic.twitter.com/SUykWTptTP — Elizabeth Warren […]

• Politics

Feel the Bern on Climate Change Again

• Bernie Sanders
• climate change
• Elizabeth Warren
• Green New Deal
• threat

Senator Bernie Sanders threw his hat into the ring yesterday for the Democratic nomination, and he turned to climate change about halfway through his launch video, saying that he is “running for President because we need to make policy decisions based on science, not politics.  We need a President who understands that climate change is real, is an existential threat to our country and the entire planet, and that we can generate massive job creation by transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy.”