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Heather Souvaine Horn

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Trump 2.0’s Deregulation of Chemicals Has Begun

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Heather Souvaine Horn

Trump Is Accidentally Making a Great Case for the Green New Deal

Trump Is Accidentally Making a Great Case for the Green New Deal
23.01.2025 1

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Heather Souvaine Horn

What If the Los Angeles Fires Were a Turning Point?

What If the Los Angeles Fires Were a Turning Point?
17.01.2025 4

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How Can Religion Help the Climate Fight?

It’s a weird time for religion in the United States. Christians are on track to become a religious minority in the country within a few decades but...

21.12.2024 3

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Data Centers Are the Next Big Front in Environmental Wars

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the underappreciated and outsize significance of local environmental battles: small-town fights over development plans...

13.12.2024 8

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How to Truly Make a Difference With Your Money This Holiday Season

“Giving Tuesday”—the nonprofit answer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday—is supposed to be a reprieve from the crass commercialization of this...

06.12.2024 2

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How to Do Good in a World Gone Bad

With the election of Donald Trump, it’s reasonable to take a wide lens on what the consequences will be for the climate. His fossil fuel–friendly...

28.11.2024 5

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How to Make Your Daily Media Consumption Less Depressing

Climate-concerned readers and voters are in a tough spot. They don’t have the postelection coping options—escapism, despair, biding one’s time till...

22.11.2024 4

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The True Threat to American Retirement

Old age has become a strangely tangled subject in the United States. Even after Joe Biden delivered one of the worst debate performances in recent...

18.11.2024 9

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How Much Damage Can Lee Zeldin Do at the EPA?

Donald Trump has named his pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency: Lee Zeldin, who was the U.S. representative for New York’s 1st...

13.11.2024 2

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The Right Way to Deal With Election Stress

We’re in the breathless final stretch of this election—when new poll analyses drop seemingly every five minutes , “ closing arguments ” that...

01.11.2024 2

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Heather Souvaine Horn

The Dirty Secret to a Sustainable Halloween

I’m not sure what I expected when I typed “low-waste Halloween candy” into a search box a few days ago. I know that trying to celebrate a holiday...

25.10.2024 2

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How Trump Could Sabotage America’s Food Supply

18.10.2024 2

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The V.P. Candidates’ Terrible Responses to Hurricane Helene

In Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, moderator Norah O’Donnell asked JD Vance about the death toll from Hurricane Helene, while referring...

03.10.2024 1

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How the GOP Became the Party of Pet Slaughter

Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts stands accused this week of killing his neighbor’s dog with a shovel circa...

26.09.2024 10

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What If Kamala Harris Is Wrong About Voters’ Climate Views?

When running for president in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, ban all new oil and gas drilling (including...

20.09.2024 2

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Is Keeping Quiet on Climate Really Harris’s Only Option?

In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last week, Kamala Harris gave the biggest existential crisis of our lifetimes...

30.08.2024 10

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A.I. Is Making a Record-Hot Summer Even Grimmer

Beneath the deluge of election news, two remarkable statistics made smaller headlines this past week. First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

23.08.2024 10

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Why Harris Is Backpedaling on Fracking

Shortly after the Iowa caucuses—a moment that feels almost unfathomably long ago in this presidential race—Tom Philpott wrote about the peculiar...

02.08.2024 5

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What Kind of Climate Candidate Will Kamala Harris Be?

Earlier this month, TNR’s Kate Aronoff argued that perhaps the best gift President Biden and his team could give the planet would be to step aside....

26.07.2024 20

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Will Heat Waves Become a Voting Issue?

In the first two weeks of July, extreme heat killed at least 37 people across the United States, and 19 in one California county alone, according...

19.07.2024 7

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