News items for March 21, 2019

33 global banks have provided $1.9 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris climate accord at the end of 2015.

While the dust hasn’t even settled on MHA, city leaders contend they have a lot of work to do on housing. And they may not have much time to do it.

The gerrymandering lawsuits challenge districts drawn based off 2010 Census data. They seek to force new district boundaries before the next legislative elections.

At what point does a new technology cause an existing industry to start losing significant value? This may turn out to be the most important economic and political question of the first half of this century.

John Remus controls the dams built decades ago to tame a river system that drains parts of 10 states and two Canadian provinces. But it was designed for a different era, a time before climate change and the extreme weather it can bring.

The Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration are charged with ensuring that chemicals used on crops don’t endanger consumers.

US District Judge Rudolph Contreras rules that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing in the West.

The tropical cyclone Idai that tore through Mozambique and other Southern African nations has spotlighted how the combination of rapid urbanization and climate change is turning deadly in some of the world’s poorest places.

A JPMorgan executive and chairman of their market investment and strategy warns that the US needs to reduce its use of carbon much faster than it plans.

One is a founder of the Bahamas Plastic Movement, a youth-led initiative that last year convinced the Bahamian government to commit to banning all single-use plastics countrywide.