‘The outlook could not be any more grim. It’s just a horrifying prospect.’

Also: The cast of ‘The West Wing’ reunites to promote voting, and Pennsylvania may legalize recreational marijuana.

The Democrats’ Green New Deal would create over a million jobs a year.

Also: States join together to fight climate change, and Texas breaks a decades-old voter turnout record.

Also: Oklahoma expands Medicaid and Congress unveils an ambitious climate proposal.

Emissions from cars and planes are down, but the environmental impact of the current crisis has a downside as well.

Also: Conservation efforts could save the oceans in a generation, and states across the country are taking steps to help residents during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Critics say Trump’s latest move to erase Obama’s legacy could lead to more illness and death.

Also: Pet adoptions are skyrocketing, and a group of high school students in New Hampshire released a video encouraging everyone to stay home.

Solar energy capacity soared in 2019, and Minnesota took steps to ensure grocery store workers can receive free child care.

The Interior Department has reportedly included boilerplate climate change denial language in at least nine scientific reports.

Republican state senators are trying to derail a bill that limits greenhouse gas emissions.

Trump’s speech contained little to nothing on the affordable housing crisis, the national debt, and protections for Dreamers, among other things.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is the latest to mock Time’s 17-year-old Person of the Year.

Our Children’s Trust, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the children, says the case is far from over.

Bill O’Brien, who is running for Senate in New Hampshire, also said we ‘don’t have to assume that there’s a catastrophe’ when it comes to climate issues.

The 2010s averaged 58.4 degrees Fahrenheit worldwide, or 1.4 degrees  higher than the 20th century average.

Trump’s own scientific advisers object to the plan which they say is ‘in conflict with established science.’

‘The issues that we think are important here in the Beltway don’t actually make it to the kitchen table as issues that voters are talking about.’

Intense wildfires in places like California and Australia are leading to concerns about the long-term effects of smoke inhalation.

People across the globe widely disapprove of Trump’s policies on trade, climate change, and building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, among other things.

One expert said the Australian bushfires are the most extreme climate change events he’s ever seen.

Trump also figured in the second and third biggest stories of the year: his family separation policy and the investigation by former special counsel Robert Mueller.

The far-right radio host accused Democrats of using the Thunberg’s Asperger’s syndrome as a shield against criticism.

But the first lady said her son ‘is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy.’

The 73-year-old Donald Trump scolded 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, saying she needs to ‘chill.’

Kansas joins states like Colorado and Utah in embracing refugees in their states, while citizens in Alabama saw a new statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Montgomery.

Trump has spent the NATO summit attacking foreign leaders and American politicians alike.

A dire report from the United Nations says countries need to immediately start reducing emissions to stop the effects of climate change.

From victories on protecting immigrants to the first step in legalizing marijuana on the federal level, progressives saw a slew of victories this week.