Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean early Wednesday endorsed Pete Buttigieg to lead the DNC, saying the party’s leadership is “old and creaky.” Dean had intimated his support for the South Bend, Ind., mayor earlier this week, and made the endorsement official on Wednesday morning. Framing Buttigieg as the best-positioned outsider candidate, Dean warned on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that…
In the first peer-reviewed study of its kind, researchers have found that emissions-curbing policies such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan would “provide immediate local and regional health co-benefits” and could prevent up to 3,500 premature deaths per year. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan aims to cut emissions of carbon dioxide largely…
A new report from the Obama administration comparing two future scenarios—one with significant global action on climate change, and the other without—finds that the U.S. could save “tens of thousands of American lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars” annually by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency…
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As ten days of UN-sponsored climate talks came to end in Bonn, Germany on Thursday morning, global campaigners demanding far-reaching solutions to the crisis of a warming planet expressed dissatisfaction on multiple levels, charging that the continued foot-dragging of governments is sentencing future generations to unparalleled catastrophe even as scientists issue grave new warnings about…
As the European Parliament convened in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday all eyes—and ears—were aimed at Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as he made his case for why the European Union must change its handling of the financial crisis in his own country and across the continent. Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/greek-crisis Arguing that his people—who overwhelmingly rejected…