Critics say the report should be seen as the latest example of government foot-dragging.
Environment
Thunberg said she will attend November’s COP26 despite the summit’s potential for “empty talk” and “greenwashing.”
Survey data shows 70 percent of Americans report being worried about global warming, an all time high.
Over the past year, wealthy G7 nations poured tens of billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than renewable energy.
The Biden administration will restore the ban on road construction and logging in the Tongass National Forest.
Cáceres was a leader of the Indigenous Lenca people’s campaign to stop construction of a dam on the Gualcarque River.
Sunrise NYC welcomed the promise as a “monumental moment for the climate movement and beyond!”
The letter, signed by more than 130 House Democrats, asks Biden to maintain climate goals he set earlier this year.
An advocate for progressive rural policies called the move “disgusting yet predictable.”
The pandemic may have cleared a way for the federal government to rebuild U.S. classrooms.