Photo by Creative Alliance member Jeremiah Watt Climate change is often described as an environmental problem. But at its core, it is also a collective action problem, and therefore a democracy problem. No individual caused climate change alone, no individual can...
Photos by Micheli Oliver The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used to protect your air and water. Now Congress has to protect the EPA.For five decades, the EPA has stood as a vital institution in American life that both parties helped build and maintain with the...
I found out Donald Trump had won the presidency three days after everyone else. The outcome of the 2024 election has drastically and rapidly changed the future of environmental protection in the United States. From weakening the EPA through numerous policy rollbacks...
Photo by Donny O’Neill The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was built on a straightforward promise: to protect human health and the environment. For decades, it fulfilled that mandate through the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the science-backed...
Photo by Jeremiah Watt Every great adventure starts with training and preparation. You don’t summit a peak you’ve been eyeing for years by winging it, and you don’t crush an ultra marathon goal without putting in the miles. As outdoors people, we...
Photo by Anastasia Wilde Think advocacy is just for policy wonks? Meet the powder-loving field organizers running POW’s Chapter Program, proving otherwise. They’re at home on the river and at the town council meeting, fired up about adrenaline sports and...
