by Mark Dunlea, Green Education and Legal Fund author, Putting Out the Planetary Fire Governor Hochul called into question the state’s commitment to climate action when a few days before the April 1 budget deadline she suddenly proposed weakening the state’s carbon emission reduction goals. While a firestorm of protest forced her to remove it … Read more…
Greens Oppose Push to Weaken Emission Accounting in CLCPA Renew Call to Enact a Carbon Tax rather than Cap-and-trade (invest) The Green Education and Legal Fund (GELF) called today for New York state to enact a carbon tax rather than the cap-and-trade (invest) program pushed by Governor Hochul. While GELF described the Parker bill as … Read more…
New York Needs to Adopt Stronger Climate Goals than the CLCPA Mark Dunlea, Green Education and Legal Fund, author Putting Out the Planetary Fire The new IPCC report once again makes clear that the world’s political and economic leaders are falling far short of the actions needed to avoid climate collapse, saying that the world … Read more…
By Mark Dunlea, author of Putting Out the Planetary Fire The need to end capitalism to avoid climate collapse has been stated by such disparate voices as Pope Francis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), and Greta Thunberg. It is long past time that ending capitalism becomes a central demand of the climate movement. … Read more…
