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An offshore wind farm. Photo: File A large portion of North Carolina voters support offshore wind, according to a new poll commissioned by a wind energy advocacy group. The poll released Wednesday shows that 77% think the primary goal of the state’s energy policy should be achieving 100% clean energy. The Southeastern Wind Coalition commissioned the survey of 656 registered voters that was conducted between Nov. 12-16 by Nexus Polling, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and th...

Print The ad opens with two apple-cheeked little girls hiking, camping and taking their wobbly first turns on skis. A mother speaks about her children’s future with worry in her voice. You brace yourself for the inevitable pitch to buy life insurance or an SUV. Instead, the ad, which will debut this week in the swing states of Arizona, North Carolina and Wisconsin, is one of the most sophisticated and well-funded efforts to spread the word on the urgency of climate change in a decade. It’s ...

Maria Elvira Salazar, who will represent the Miami area, and  Peter Meijer, who will represent the 3rd Congressional District in Michigan. “Areas like Miami Beach may become uninhabitable in a matter of decades, not centuries, unless we work to combat the problem,” Salazar says on her  “Granted, a lot of our policies have not been acknowledging either present-day realities or any of the best estimates about where we’re going forward, and that’s something that has frustrated me about...

How is Mexico Navigating the COVID Financial Crisis? In a recent online conversation hosted by Yale SOM, Mexico’s chief central banker discussed the country’s response to the economic distress caused by COVID-19—the country’s third financial crisis in recent decades. He said that Mexico’s response was designed to preserve the hard-won gains its banking sector and economy have made since the 1990s.  The Banco de México in Mexico City. Photo: Alfonso21/Wikimedia ...

Your World with Neil Cavuto The network is exceedingly efficient at poisoning the well against even the most milquetoast climate proposals, while consistentlyfailing to inform its audience about the need for ambitious climate action in light of the growing climate emergency. National polls demonstrate strong support for “progressive” proposals such as the Green New Deal, yet 91% of Fox viewers oppose it according to a 2019 poll conducted by Green Advocacy Project, a nonprofit advocacy group...

Georgia Clinched Biden’s Victory. Now It Will Decide His Climate Agenda’s Fate. Control of the Senate rests on a long-shot bid to unseat two Republican senators in a state that has only just started to turn purple. Drew Angerer via Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in rally for U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Atlanta. The weeks leading up to the November election produced one of the most hopeful periods for the future of America...

My Turn: Climate change a winning issue: Let’s work together to solve it MARK REYNOLDS Modified: 12/17/2020 2:53:28 PM In the home stretch of the 2020 campaign, presidential candidate Joe Biden leaned hard into the issue of climate change, giving a televised climate speech and running climate-focused ads in swing states. His campaign bet that this issue, once considered politically risky, would now be a winner. That bet paid off. The votes have been tallied, and candidate Biden is now Pres...

Virtual:YLNG presents COVID-19 and Holidays: What can I do to Protect my Family Event time:  Location:  Speaker/Performer:  Event description:  Join the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale Latino Networking Group, Yale African American Affinity Group, Future Leaders of Yale, and Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health for a community participatory conversation series to create community engagement. Education and action will allow us, individually and collectively, to care for and ...

Letter: Kudos to Garamendi Local members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby extend our hearty thanks to US Rep. John Garamendi for his co-sponsorship of HR763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA). This bipartisan bill would cut CO2 emissions from greenhouse gases by 40% in 12 years by placing a steadily rising fee on fossil fuel at the mine or wellhead. Among those with the lowest 60% of incomes, 83% would receive dividends greater than their increased fuel costs. For an additional ...

It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been an eventful year. Whether you manage to make it home or if you are zooming in to the holiday dinner table, it has been a tricky few months for small talk topics. In between other popular dinner table subjects, like politics, protests or the pandemic, you might find yourself wondering how to bring up your climate concerns. We get it, environmental matters can often be divisive. Discussions can leave us disheartened, especially if the other ...