Climate Change

At a packed hearing in Washington, D.C., moms told EPA officials in no uncertain terms to protect the air their babies breathe and help stop climate change by leaving current vehicle greenhouse gas standards and fuel efficiency requirements alone. “I like cars, but I don’t...

School is in session, Congress is back from August recess, and several states in our country have been battered by high category hurricanes. The head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, doesn’t think now is the time to discuss climate change. As a barrage of new...

  The oceans are warming. Surface temperature of the oceans has warmed about 1 to 3 degrees F over the last century. Warmer oceans feed more energy into hurricanes, so they grow stronger. Wind speeds are higher. The seas are rising. Land ice melting from...

When an editor at the New York Times Book Review contacted me to review a Young Adult novel, I thought she might have confused me with someone else. But of course, I never say no. And then I read one of the most beguiling novels...

  Back in the spring, Montana had the opportunity to elect a new congressman after our previous one, Ryan Zinke, was appointed Secretary of the Interior. Greg Gianforte, a businessman who hadn’t previously held public office and unsuccessfully ran for governor in the fall, prevailed....