• Climate Change

A Tale of Two Editorials

• American Jobs Plan
• climate change
• Green New Deal
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal

On Monday, The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published extensive editorials on the climate provisions of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan.  The two headlines say it all. The NYT’s read “Trump Abandoned the Climate. This Is Biden’s Moment,” while the WSJ’s called the plan “The Green New Deal, In Disguise.”  […]

• Politics

Read This: The NY Times Editorial Board On Reversing Trump’s Environmental Damage

• #climatechange
• climate crisis
• conservation
• editorial
• environment
• New York Times

Yesterday, in a full-page editorial, The New York Times stated that if elected, Joe Biden could reverse much of the damage caused by the Trump Administration’s effort to weaken environmental laws and policies, and their enforcement, but to do it will take a great deal of work.

Why This Matters:  It is significant that Vice President Biden — by naming climate change as a crisis on par with the others facing the nation, namely the COVID pandemic, the economic devastation it spawned, and the fight for racial justice, he has made it one of THE issues in this fall’s presidential campaign.

• People

Climate Protests Heating Up this Summer

• climate change
• Extinction Rebellion
• media
• New York Times

Although in 2018, the New York Times had published 795 articles relating to climate issues, protestors last week with the Extinction Rebellion (the same group responsible for massive protests recently in London) called for a change in the rhetoric the NYT uses in its climate coverage. They want the newspaper to transition away from phrases […]

• Food

New York Times forces us to examine how our diets contribute to climate change

• climate change
• food waste
• New York Times

This week the New York Times wrote a series of fantastic pieces about food and its connection to climate change. We covered the story about how climate change is altering the way some of our favorite crops are being cultivated but we highly recommend that you check out more from this series. Start with this […]