This week at Climate Week
I'm writing this from Climate Week, where Coefficient Giving is a sponsor of “ The Urban Climate Solution ” series, ten free sessions with the Parking Reform Network, Pew, and WRI's Ross Center, making the case that urba…
Environment & Climate
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Sobering takes on Canadian wildfires
If you were in the Northeast US last week, you probably got at least a noseful of Canadian wildfire smoke. We’ve written before about the extraordinarily high health costs of wildfires, but Zeke Hausfather makes a convin…
Wildfire smoke's 24,000 hidden deaths a year
We don’t usually talk about permitting reform as a life-or-death issue. But evidence from a new paper suggests that maybe we should, at least where wildfire management is concerned. Min Zhang and coauthors find that wild…
Conservation and abundance are on the same side
Continuing that theme, the weaponization of environmental review as a tactic to delay or block new building has tended to cast the conservation movement as an antagonist to the Abundance Movement. But the same permitting…
Repealing the endangerment finding, uncertainty included
The EPA just repealed the endangerment finding – the 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, and the regulatory foundation for US climate policy under the Clean Air Act. Philip Rosset…