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Kai Anderson's power map of the environmental campaigns led by Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada during his long career in Congress.
Kai Anderson’s eye-catching, multi-colored, hand-drawn thematic maps have developed a cult following in conservation circles in the American West. He walks us through a map he created of Sen. Harry Reid's major environmental campaigns.
Booming Las Vegas (Courtesy of KCET)
"The New West and the Politics of the Environment," a feature-length documentary for the public television environmental news magazine “Earth Focus,” makes the case for placing former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Nevada at the center of a green new deal.
Jocelyn Torres of the Conservation Land Foundation
As an advocate for public lands, Jocelyn Torres is shaping the future of conservation by protecting wide-open landscapes of the American West from destructive industries.
A U.S. Flag flaps in the wind as the Shady Fire impacts structures along CA-12 on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020 in Santa Rosa, California. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe.
The pit at Malakoff Diggins during heyday of hydraulic mining. | Wikimedia Commons/Watkins Photo-Bancroft Neg. #8111/Creative Commons/Public Domain
Though the Gold Rush ended over a century ago, thousands of abandoned mine sites and mine sediments, which were never properly reclaimed, have continued to leech mercury into California's environment and will continue to do so for the next 10,000 years.
A little boy jumps near the ocean surrounding the Marshall Islands, which are at high risk due to sea level rise. | Courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation
Experts expect more than 1 billion climate refugees by the year 2050. Where will they go and how will the world feed, clothe and shelter them?
An undated photo of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. | Steven Chase/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Getty Images
What Joe Biden would need to do starting from Day One to correct the course of US climate policy. 
 A coal truck drives to the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant on March 28, 2016 outside Delta, Utah. | George Frey/Getty Images
California for many embodies the quintessential future of renewable energy. But a closer look, reveals a coal economy and story of implication and intimacy across the West.
Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass "The Green New Deal." | Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images
In this op-ed, a first-time voter and Bernie Sanders delegate at the D.N.C. says young people must push the Democratic Party to prioritize the climate emergency.
Demonstrators from several environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement demand broad action at a youth-led climate strike near City Hall on December 6, 2019 in New York City. | Scott Heins/Getty Images
The burgeoning youth climate movement is poised to help create a new Democratic coalition that centers climate policy and pushes the party to take bold action.
African American protester wearing a mask that says, "Vote" in Washington Square Park expressing the sentiment that voting in Nov. 2020 will be a way to help affect change in policies to end racial injustice. June 19, 2020. |Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty
Black voters could in many ways be the decisive eco-voters of the most high stakes election in American history. 
The Niagara River is seen west of the river on May 26, 2018 in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. | Photo by Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Autumn Peltier is passionate about granting communites acess to clean water. It's a cause she has been fighting for since she was at least 12 years old. 
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