by Becca Edwards | Aug 16, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
A lawsuit filed by a cohort of Texas prison-rights advocates against the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice accuses the department of creating inhumane conditions inside Texas prisons by failing to air condition the facilities. The lawsuit...
by Becca Edwards | Aug 8, 2024 | Blog, Climate Justice, Latest Posts
I am taking a break this week from talking about the Gulf of Mexico to spend a few minutes talking about my summer family travel to another gulf, the Gulf of Maine. Like the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Maine is experiencing rapid environmental change driven by climate...
by Becca Edwards | Jul 24, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
At the end of June the US Supreme Court issued a stay in a case called Ohio v. EPA that blocks the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from enforcing the Good Neighbor Rule, also known as the Cross State Air Pollution Rule. The Good Neighbor Rule addresss transport...
by Becca Edwards | Jul 16, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
The central premise of Abrahm Lustgarten’s book “On the Move” is that the impacts of climate change are already driving human migration within the United States and that that trend will accelerate as the impacts of climate change ramp up. The book opens with an...
by Becca Edwards | Jul 11, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
When I was in grad school, my job was to drive instrument towers to the coast when a hurricane was coming so we could collect high-frequency wind data that we could study to learn about how to make buildings more resilient to wind storms like hurricanes. I drove to a...