It’s going to be interesting to see if/how this $2.5 billion gets appropriated. There were a couple of competing environmental appropriations bills during Florida’s 2018 session for springs protection, the Indian River Lagoon, etc. that were overshadowed by the (mess of a) response to Parkland and larger bills (e.g.…

I’m sympathetic to this argument, but you can’t say that D.C. hasn’t considered how this will impact low-income people. Granted, an extra $3 a month may mean a lot more to someone else than it does to me, but we also need to consider the costs further down the road if nothing is done at all...

I’ve started with baby steps and tried eliminating most red meat from my diet. I don’t necessarily miss it and it’s easy to just not buy it at the grocery store, but I think the hardest part is resisting that instinct to check at the beef section of a restaurant or takeout menu.

My cynical take: we’ve seen progressive issues (e.g. single-payer/Medicare for All) poll very well among the public only to be demonized wholesale once it gets anywhere near political reality.

Among the dugongs, sea turtles, and jewel-toned corals, though, there’s another organism that doesn’t get nearly as much credit as it deserves: seagrass.

Yeah, to be quite honest, the case law surrounding the CWA/WOTUS seems like an absolute mess. It doesn’t appear the lower courts had an easy time applying the Rapanos ruling consistently either (because of how they then interpreted Marks, which is way too far down the legal rabbit hole for a non-lawyer like me).

I loooove climate policy coverage here at Earther, but here we have some really cool hard science and there’s what...one other comment? Meanwhile there’s >100 posts on the AOC/Green New Deal post which, while extremely important, gets cross posted to Gizmodo and attracts ignorant comments from somehow un-greyed people…

+1:3 ratio

Meh. I thought it was fun enough in the typical cringey holiday special kind of way, particularly a couple glasses of wine in. Didn’t really expect there to be a real, one-off competition when the previews showed how much of a musical it was...

AS4 starts next Friday

I don’t think that one could negotiate their own contract is a very good counterpoint to unionization. I mean, the whole point of unions is that a collective voice of workers is stronger than one individual.

I’m an AGU member, attending the Fall Meeting, who may or may not have RSVP-ed “yes” to the award’s ceremony before entirely realizing what was happening...

The WASP virtues also included a cosmopolitanism that was often more authentic than our own performative variety — a cosmopolitanism that coexisted with white man’s burden racism but also sometimes transcended it, because for every Brahmin bigot there was an Arabist or China hand or Hispanophile who understood the…

Yup, it really is a race to the bottom when it comes to hampering labor efforts. In my particular “right to work” state it’s literally codified in the constitution that public sector employees cannot strike or even take action that could be perceived as a strike without severe penalties.

Decent primer on why RCPs are used and then what each one assumes: https://www.skepticalscience.com/rcp.php?t=1

Yeah, it’s ridiculous to think that Pelosi won’t get the votes on the full House floor...as if all the moderate Dems opposing her are going to fall behind Kevin fucking McCarthy and miss out on any chance of getting decent committee assignments.

Yeah, I get calling out Jeffries on his individual stances which are terrible (e.g. charter schools), but he’s overall just barely less progressive than Lee and a hell of a lot younger—the latter of which has been the more valid point against the current Dem leadership. Weird that there’s such an uproar over the…

Here’s the original paper referenced in the report: http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs/Climatechange/Carbon%20sequestration/Rau_EST_08_reprint.pdf

I mean, Orange County has long been viewed as the Republican stronghold in California despite an ever-shrinking majority. The fact that these seats were vulnerable in the first place made them a big target for candidates like Levin (and donors) to play to a more educated and diversifying electorate on issues like…