Politics

  Fifty years ago, then-President Lyndon Johnson traveled to California to dedicate the newest member of the state’s flagship university system: the University of California at Irvine. On Saturday, President Barack Obama marked the anniversary by delivering the commencement at UCI’s graduation. Obama focused the speech...

This was written by Lisa Wozniak for MLive:  People in politics tell a lot of “success” stories, but one that can be substantiated is the rise of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. Thanks to a law passed with bipartisan support in 2008, Michigan has been challenged to...

Isn’t it incredible what we can accomplish together? For months, Moms Clean Air Force staffers, organizers, and volunteers worked hard to organize Mama Summit 2014 — a week of events at state capitols and online where moms gathered to tell their state lawmakers that children...

This post was written by EDF attorney Megan Ceronsky and legal fellow Peter Heisler: The newly-released Third National Climate Assessment has some eye-opening news about climate change. The report confirms that if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced it is likely that American communities will...

This editorial ran in the Concord Monitor: Yesterday, it seemed like humans were characters in a dark comedy produced for the amusement of Zeus, the Greek god of the sky; Aeolus, god of the winds; Poseidon, creator of storms on the sea; Zeus Eudora, the...