Climate Change

Starting next week, new construction and major renovation projects in Northampton, Massachusetts will need to be fossil fuel-free, with some exceptions.

Officials in Northampton, Massachusetts, have advanced language that could lead to the city requiring new construction and major renovation projects be fossil fuel-free, with some exceptions. An ordinance was advanced to the city council this week, amid concerns voiced by some residents and architects.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, and Pulitzer Prize winner and staff writer at The New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert.

Do you want to understand climate change – really understand it – in under 3 minutes? Then pull up a chair. It all revolves around the trapping of heat, which is far simpler and more fascinating than people seem to believe.

Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law, making New York the second state in the country to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for climate impacts.

Discussion of the climate crisis is always suffered from a problem of extraction, data points, and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. Many politicians cloistered by status and focused always on their next election do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run, so they don’t take any action at all. Jonathan Vigliotti's book explores this, “Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Frontlines of Climate Change and Small-Town America.”

(Airs 10/10/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Democrat from Manhattan, about the scandal surrounding Mayor Eric Adams, whether she thinks former Governor Andrew Cuomo will run for the seat, proposition one on the ballot, environmental legislation that’s ready to pass this session, and much more.

The Clinton County, New York Health Department recently reported its first human case of West Nile Virus this year. It’s thought the viruses are more prevalent across the region this year due to the weather and climate change.

An event in South Egremont, Massachusetts tonight will explore the impact of climate change on farming in the Northeast.

A team from the Adirondacks has been selected to participate in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Earth to Sky Academy this fall.