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Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) This Earther report is being co-published with the . The Biden administration has pledged to make the climate crisis a top-tier issue, authorizing a “whole of government” to take on climate change. That would mean the responsibility to legislate environmental action wouldn’t be left up only to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, but would extend to all agencies, including financial regulators. Advertisement Already, over the past few weeks, Biden’s Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will update i...

Dr Werner Hoyer, president of the EIB — the investment bank publicly owned by the European Union's member states — made the comments while presenting a review of the institution's 2020 operations at a press conference in Luxembourg. Calling a future break with fracked gas "a serious departure from the past," Hoer added that "without the end to the use of unabated fossil fuels, we will not be able to reach the climate targets" to which the EU states — and therefore the bank — have committed. McKibben and others responded to the comments as the most recent promising signal that the fina...

An online network of climate change activists. bill, thank you very much for joining us. we've been trying to get you on, i know, all week. we appreciate you -- >> it's good to be with you, katy. >> i read your article and it made me drop everything that i was doing and wonder why we aren't screaming about this from the top of a hillside. the world is shrinking, in your estimation, and not actually in size. it's not as if the world is getting smaller, but the places that americans or humans are able to inhabit are getting smaller and smaller. explain. >> well, look, 30 years ago when i wrote t...

United states. the new yorker sums it up best in an alarming report. it is making less land hospitable to human life. bill mckibben wrote a new yorker story about what we then called the greenhouse gas effect. he is also an environmental activist and founder of 350.org, an online network of climate change activists. bill, thank you very much for joining us. we've been trying to get you on, i know, all week. we appreciate you -- >> it's good to be with you, katy. >> i read your article and it made me drop everything that i was doing and wonder why we aren't screaming about this from the top o...