Sep 9, 2024 | North America, September 2024
Over the last two years, several court decisions weakened the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to tackle pollution and climate change [1]. It dates back to the case in 2022 (West Virginia vs EPA) when courts applied the major questions doctrine...
Jul 9, 2024 | North America
Whilst efforts at the federal level suffer from policy gridlocks and rollbacks, there has been a shift to the state level, with each state government having its own judicial, legislative, and executive branches [1, 2]. Last November, Michigan adopted a historic...
Jun 2, 2024 | North America
Energy production Figure 1 shows the domination of fossil fuels, especially oil, followed by natural gas and coal. However, production of fossil fuels did decrease by 50% between 2000 and 2021. Oil decreased the strongest (-56%), followed by coal (-38%) and natural...
Apr 30, 2023 | North America
Cop City In September 2021, Atlanta approved plans to lease 85 acres of public land that was earmarked as a public park to the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) for 10 USD/year [4]. The foundation announced plans to build a police and firefighter training facility on...
Mar 2, 2023 | North America
What is managed retreat? Managed retreat is “the purposeful, coordinated movement of people and assets out of harm’s way” [2]. An example of managed retreat would be relocating people living in a flood-prone region to a safer area; as was the case in...
Nov 20, 2022 | All Posts, North America
Voter turnout and motivation This year’s midterms saw a record number of early votes cast, continuing the trend of increasing numbers in early voting since the early 2000s [7, 8]. In terms of demographics, early voting is higher for Democrats and...
