Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Changing Climate Winds

November 23, 2015

 

11/19/15 – One science watcher is seeing “fantastic news” in how some Republicans are viewing climate challenges, with separate groups of federal legislators declaring intentions to “protect our environment and climate while also bolstering clean energy innovation” and to be “good stewards of our environment…and base our policy decisions in science.” In Issues, a scholar of conservative policy has looked at areas where action on climate measures might win favor, while an energy analyst has proposed combining climate policies drawn from across the political spectrum.