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Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sunrise co-founder and Executive Director Varshini Prakash on Feb. 5, 2019. (Medill)
Northwestern University
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
At the State of the Union on Feb. 5, President Donald Trump never mentioned environmental issues and climate change, Medill's Kietryn Zychal reports.
Tags: state of the union, Green New Deal, Edward Markey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Sunrise movement
House members listen to testimony from climate change experts at a committee hearing on February 13, 2019. (Brock Hall/Medill)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee invited experts on Wednesday to lay out climate change concerns before their sometimes skeptical Republican colleagues in the panel’s first hearing of the new Congress.
Tags: climate change, climate science, science, House of Representatives, politics
The Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Medill News Service)
Northwestern University
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The recent government shutdown’s effect on climate research could have unfortunate consequences in the near future, according to climate scientists.
Tags: Government, politics, Politics & Policy, epa, climate research, climate change
Northwestern University
Friday, March 01, 2019
Last week, a video of children pleading with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Cal., to back the Green New Deal resolution went viral. It was posted by the Sunrise Movement, a group of mostly young environmental activists.
Tags: Green New Deal, climate change, Student activism, protest, environmental activism
Northwestern University
Friday, July 05, 2019
Medill's Emily Wong reports on several student organizations at Northwestern University which hosted an ongoing stream of pop-up used clothing sales throughout spring quarter.
Tags: clothing, fast fashion, sustainability, sustainable fashion, Fashion, storyfest2020
Northwestern University
Friday, May 24, 2019
More than 200 D.C.-area teens called for climate policy action Friday morning, skipping school to participate in a global climate strike started by Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg.
Tags: climate strike, climate policy, environmental activism, Student activism, youth climate movement, storyfest2020
An electric vehicle charges at a public charging station in Chicago. How much of the electricity is produced by renewable sources depends on the utility company providing it. (Brady Jones/MEDILL)
Northwestern University
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Driving an electric vehicle plays a critical role in reducing CO2 emissions, but the impact of this reduction is diminished if the electricity comes from fossil fuels. Brady Jones of Medill reports.
Tags: electric vehicles, EVs, clean energy, wind energy, Solar Energy, Biomass, utilities, storyfest2020
A bird’s-eye view on Maine Yankee, where 60 casks of spent nuclear fuel and four casks of irradiated steel, a type of low-level radioactive waste, stand in a square formation. (Courtesy of Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company)
Northwestern University
Friday, July 19, 2019
Thirty-seven years ago, Congress decided the federal government should be responsible for disposing of the waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants. But it's still in limbo.
Tags: nuclear, nuclear waste, Toxic pollution, nuclear power, federal government, politics, storyfest2020
In 1987, Congress designated Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert as the permanent repository for all U.S. nuclear waste, and spent $15 billion on the site throughout the years. But facing strong local opposition, the site was never put into use and the project was abandoned. (White House photo)
Northwestern University
Friday, June 28, 2019
A bipartisan group of senators revives the longstanding issue of where to store and dispose of nuclear waste with a new bill proposing centralized interim storage, reports Medill's Kimberly Jin.
Tags: nuclear waste, nimby, federal government, hazardous waste, storyfest2020
Not unsurprisingly, Democrats and Republicans had opposing views at a House subcommittee meeting Thursday on the future of coal in the United States. (Noah Broder/Medill)
Northwestern University
Friday, July 12, 2019
Medill's Noah Broder reports from a House hearing, which looked at the value of coal to our economy. Dems called for more environmental controls, while the GOP stressed its importance to our energy infrastructure.