Joseph Winters
Editorial Intern
About Joseph Winters
Science major who prefers the pen to the pipette. Mad about the climate crisis and institutional investments in fossil fuels; excited about massaged kale and making spreadsheets. Formerly at Living on Earth and Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Why a California beach town just banned balloons
Celebrations in a beachside California city will soon have to take place without an iconic, single-use party favour: balloons.
Deep-sea mining could begin next year. Here’s why ocean experts are calling for a moratorium.
The risks vastly outweigh the potential benefits, they argue.
How fast-food chains could reduce their carbon footprint
“Not changing their menus makes everything else look like window dressing,” said Jennifer Molidor, a senior food campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Are corporations sabotaging the U.S.’s best chance to combat climate change?
Despite ambitious commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the non-profit ClimateVoice reveals that 12 of the U.S.’s largest pro-climate companies are obstructing efforts to pass the Build Back Better Act.
U.S. may finally restrict plastic industry’s preferred method of ‘recycling’
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, formally announced it was considering tighter regulations for pyrolysis and gasification — controversial processes that are associated with “chemical recycling.”
ExxonMobil ranks dead last on environmental racism scorecard
ExxonMobil and other oil companies got negative scores for polluting non-white communities.
Study links wildfire smoke to COVID case spikes and deaths
Smoke from last year’s West Coast wildfires was associated with almost 20,000 excess COVID-19 cases.
Oregon’s air quality is so far beyond ‘hazardous’ that no one knows what it will mean for health
In some parts of Oregon this week, the air got so smoky that it maxed out the scale used by the Environmental Protection Agency to measure hazardous air quality.