On July 27, the Post's resident environmental-politics expert shared a plan from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) to fund a national grasslands strategy to protect against drought. The bill seems likeliest to pass, if it can pass, within broader resilience legislation.
On July 25, the head of the Council on Foreign Relations ticked off the failures we've seen on climate action - and located promise in adaptation, sequestration, and other natural solutions.
Decades of blasting the tops of mountains for coal have clouded generations of human life and millions of years' worth of other life in Appalachia. A new approach that centers on reclaiming mine sites, supporting health in order to build livelihoods, can reset that.
