PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 23, 2023
The 10 warmest years over the last 143 years have all occurred since 2010. Meanwhile, the pollution that causes global warming just keeps rising. Despite some recent progress on climate policy, the country is still on a reckless path in the wrong direction. Republicans now hold a narrow majority in the House and spent some of their first several days in power trying to score points in the nation’s culture wars by going ballistic over a nonexistent ban on gas stoves. If that is any indication of what’s to come, they will try to obstruct climate action instead of acting to protect the American people from an existential threat that’s growing worse by the year. Leaders at all levels of government need to keep slashing pollution as quickly as possible, or the nation will have no chance of cutting climate-warming emissions in half by 2030. And we are still falling short. ~ Los Angeles Times