Partnership for Responsible Growth

07/10/2026

The Trump administration has reconstituted a government-wide program that tracks how climate change is transforming the country, after having gutted it last year. The U.S. Global Change Research Program is now headed by Matthew Wielicki, a former University of Alabama professor and climate change skeptic.

07/09/2026

High temperatures are associated with increased accident rates at workplaces and upticks in violent crime. And recent research has found that hotter weather may make the brain more vulnerable to air pollution, increasing the risk for dementia and Parkinson’s disease.

A growing body of research has shown that our brains work differently when temperatures spike.

07/09/2026

Methane is among the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, accounting for 30% of global warming. Cows are responsible for more than a third of all the methane that humans produce.

What if the answer to the world's methane problem was microscopic bugs on trees and in soils? Scientists are taking to the woods of Maine to find out.

07/08/2026

Extreme heat poses a risk to nearly all living things, but chickens, unable to sweat and cloaked in feathers, are far more vulnerable than most. Large numbers are dying from recent heat waves. Chicken is likely to cost more, as a result.

The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll.

07/06/2026

A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.

A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.

07/05/2026

About 50 large fires are now burning across the US, and Utah and Colorado experiencing particularly large or destructive blazes. Roughly 3.2 million acres have burned so far this year — nearly twice as many as this time last July. Pricing carbon emissions would help.

A collision of risky conditions have made things harder as summer begins. But before these elements aligned, the pressure on federal firefighting capacity had been building for years.

07/04/2026

A new law in Florida prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. It states that “net zero policies, carbon taxes and assessments, and emission trading programs are detrimental to this state’s energy security and economic interests and inconsistent with the energy policy and the environmental policy of this state.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis characterized the clean energy goals the law bans as “radical climate policies,” although experts say the law will not necessarily upend the plans.

07/03/2026

The Trump administration is moving to weaken efficiency standards for home appliances proven to cut power demand and lower utility bills.

The Energy Department wants to permanently restrict longstanding efficiency mandates, calling them a “scam.”

07/02/2026

A heat wave of the magnitude that swept across Europe recently has grown more than 100 times as likely just since the landmark European heat wave of 2003. We need to price carbon and thus reduce its use.

The world’s infrastructure was built for a climate we no longer have.

07/01/2026

Powassan virus disease is becoming more common as climate change creates the hot, humid conditions that ticks love. The disease's symptoms include neurological problems such as memory loss, difficulty speaking and seizures. One more reason to speed the transition to clean energy.

Cases of Powassan virus have hit the news in recent months because of the potentially life-altering, sometimes fatal, symptoms.