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Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
Climate & Energy
In wildfire-riddled Tennessee, climate change is a hot topic
Residents blame drought, and some point to climate.
Obama can’t really do much about Standing Rock
Activists are calling on the president to intervene, but he has little power to stop the pipeline.
The backstory on Standing Rock, the federal government, and tribal sovereignty
A primer on the body of law that has everything to do with the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Trump supports finishing Dakota Access.
Standing Rock also saw a small victory in the form of a letter from Wells Fargo to tribal elders.
5 lessons activists can learn from Florida’s successful ballot fight to defend solar
Floridians voted Republican on Nov. 8, and at the same time they rejected an anti-solar ballot amendment.
Bill McKibben: Trump presidency “demands fierce resistance”
Here are some tips for persevering through the next four years.
Want to convince Trump to care about climate? Scaremongering about refugees won’t help.
Military leaders are warning about climate change causing an 'unimaginable' refugee crisis. But we should help migrants, not demonize them.
Our government is now getting its science news from science-denying Breitbart.
The dystopian nightmare seems to be descending sooner than we thought.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by a whopping 29 percent this year — but there’s a way to slow it.
According to satellite imagery, loggers depleted 3,000 square miles of the Amazon from August 2015 to July 2016. That may be partially attributable to funding cuts that have hamstrung the government agency responsible for monitoring illegal logging. In 2004, Brazil created …
Climate & Energy
In wildfire-riddled Tennessee, climate change is a hot topic
Residents blame drought, and some point to climate.
Obama can’t really do much about Standing Rock
Activists are calling on the president to intervene, but he has little power to stop the pipeline.
The backstory on Standing Rock, the federal government, and tribal sovereignty
A primer on the body of law that has everything to do with the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Trump supports finishing Dakota Access.
Standing Rock also saw a small victory in the form of a letter from Wells Fargo to tribal elders.
5 lessons activists can learn from Florida’s successful ballot fight to defend solar
Floridians voted Republican on Nov. 8, and at the same time they rejected an anti-solar ballot amendment.
Bill McKibben: Trump presidency “demands fierce resistance”
Here are some tips for persevering through the next four years.
Want to convince Trump to care about climate? Scaremongering about refugees won’t help.
Military leaders are warning about climate change causing an 'unimaginable' refugee crisis. But we should help migrants, not demonize them.
Our government is now getting its science news from science-denying Breitbart.
The dystopian nightmare seems to be descending sooner than we thought.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by a whopping 29 percent this year — but there’s a way to slow it.
According to satellite imagery, loggers depleted 3,000 square miles of the Amazon from August 2015 to July 2016. That may be partially attributable to funding cuts that have hamstrung the government agency responsible for monitoring illegal logging. In 2004, Brazil created …