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Unpacking the complex realities of anthropogenic climate change, piece by piece.
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COP 26 was a summit of watered-down compromises that delayed bold climate action and maintained the…
COP 26 was a summit of watered-down compromises that delayed bold climate action and maintained the…
Three months after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its most alarming report to date, rendering human-caused climate…
Allie Lowy
Nov 14, 2021
Xcel Energy must invest in renewables, Colorado communities, not fossil fuel profits
Xcel Energy must invest in renewables, Colorado communities, not fossil fuel profits
Xcel Energy’s newest Electric Resource Plan for Colorado would be costly for ratepayers, jeopardize the health of Coloradans, and fall…
Allie Lowy
Nov 2, 2021
Misery in the Mountain State: The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal in Rural Appalachian West Virginia
Misery in the Mountain State: The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal in Rural Appalachian West Virginia
In Boone County, West Virginia, residents learn at a young age to avoid all contact with the tap water flowing from pipes in their homes…
Allie Lowy
Oct 31, 2020
Hurricanes, Toxic Waste, and Their Sacrifice Zones: Low-Income Communities of Color on the Gulf…
Hurricanes, Toxic Waste, and Their Sacrifice Zones: Low-Income Communities of Color on the Gulf…
When Hurricane Laura made landfall in August 2020, on the Texas and Louisiana coastlines, it ravaged an area dotted with petrochemical…
Allie Lowy
Oct 31, 2020
What does mass incarceration have to do with environmental degradation? More than you’d think.
What does mass incarceration have to do with environmental degradation? More than you’d think.
Kenneth Hartman was three decades into a life sentence at the California State Prison in Lancaster when he contracted valley fever, a…
Allie Lowy
Oct 31, 2020
Brief Thoughts on the Climate Crisis
Brief Thoughts on the Climate Crisis
Transcript of a Speech I Delivered at the Youth Climate Strikes on September 20, 2019 — at the University of Virginia and in Downtown…
Allie Lowy
Oct 28, 2019
Environmentalism as 21st Century Morality
Environmentalism as 21st Century Morality
Environmentalism is the closest thing I have to to a religion, morality, or ethical value set. And i
Allie Lowy
Jan 15, 2019
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