Schultz on Climate Change: ‘We Are Literally on a Collision Course With Time’

Says Americans must take 'personal responsibility' to address global warming

Elizabeth Harrington
January 29, 2019 4:57 AM

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz issued a dire warning about climate change, saying "we are literally as a world on a collision course with time" and Americans must take "personal responsibility" to address global warming.

Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Spent $300k on Private Plane Travel in October

Sanders says 'climate change is the single greatest threat facing our planet'

Brent Scher
December 4, 2018 5:05 PM

The re-election campaign for Vermont senator Bernie Sanders spent nearly $300,000 to travel on a private jet in the final stretch of the midterm election, filings with the Federal Election Commission show.

Law Firm Pitching Climate Suits Sought to Evade Detection by Open Records

Questions remain as to whether conversations conformed to local lobbying laws

Todd Shepherd
December 4, 2018 5:00 AM

Sher Edling, the law firm heading up a number of climate lawsuits brought by governments against oil producers like Exxon and BP, sought to move some of their conversations with the city of Miami Beach offline with the express concern of hoping to keep the discussion's details out of documents that might later be obtained through open records requests.

CNN Host on Climate Change: ‘We Don’t Want to Be Slowly Burned to Death’

Cameron Cawthorne
November 28, 2018 4:10 PM

‘Alarming’ Study Claiming Global Warming Heating Up Oceans Based on Math Error

'We really muffed the error margins.'

Elizabeth Harrington
November 15, 2018 5:00 AM

A highly circulated study claiming oceans are warming at a much higher rate due to global warming contains "key errors," forcing researchers to issue a correction.

Ocasio-Cortez: We Must Use Blueprint From Defeating Nazis to Defeat Global Warming

Cameron Cawthorne
October 19, 2018 11:11 PM

Climate Change Not a Top Issue for Voters, Despite Push From Democrats

Jeffrey Cimmino
September 14, 2018 4:10 PM

Many Democrats have pushed to make climate change a key issue for voters in recent years, but it has "failed to gain traction as a voting issue in American elections," according to a Politico report.

NPR: Best Way to Fight Texas Wildfires Is ‘Getting Real’ on Climate Change

'There's only one big way to prevent forest fires'

Elizabeth Harrington
August 1, 2018 5:00 AM

A National Public Radio report blamed global warming for wildfires in Texas and suggested the best way to put fires out is by "getting real" on climate change.

Rhode Island Opens Up New Front in Climate Change Lawsuit Offensive

New legal challenge comes just one week after similar federal case is dismissed

Todd Shepherd
July 3, 2018 10:20 AM

The Rhode Island attorney general filed a lawsuit in state court against ExxonMobil (Exxon), BP, Shell, and others, arguing that the energy producers knew their product contributed to climate change, but "engaged in a coordinated, multi-front effort to conceal and deny their own knowledge" of possible resulting threats.

Al Gore Compares Fighting Global Warming to Abolition and Civil Rights at Australian Climate Summit

Paul Crookston
July 14, 2017 3:49 PM

Former Vice President Al Gore compared the movement to stop global warming with abolishing slavery, the civil rights movement and gay rights in a speech at the EcoCity World Summit in Melbourne, Australia Thursday.