Sarah Laskow

Ecologist Susanna Hecht is studying El Salvador’s response to climate change, and she tells Yale Environment 360: El Salvador and Central America take climate change seriously because they are getting nailed by these intense storms. As I always say, I never thought the future would come so soon. Last year El Salvador got hit so […]

Like fellow TAPPED blogger Jamelle Bouie, I give serious kudos to the Obama administration for highlighting sexual assault. I’d note, too, that built in to the coverage of Biden’s forthcoming announcement is an example of why this issue is so often dismissed. A lot of the articles mention a recently opened investigation into sexual harassment […]

The Hill’s E2 Wire is reporting that a Senate vote on EPA carbon regulations won’t happen until next week. Although the White House handed out some tepid reassurance that it would not sell the EPA down the river, it doesn’t sound like the administration will jump to the agency’s defense. At the base of this […]

As data from the census rolls out, fantastic visualizations are popping up all over. But all that eye candy is necessarily missing a layer of detail: Even though this year census officials tried harder than ever to reach hard-to-count immigrant and students communities, many of those people still aren’t accounted for in the official statistics. […]

Rebecca Solnit writes at Yes! Magazine about how racial stereotypes affect perceptions about people’s behavior in the wake of a disaster: After both Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the word “looting” was used to justify shooting people down in the streets—the death penalty, that is, without benefit of […]

Greenwire reports on the White House’s push for a clean-energy standard and makes clear an important distinction: A clean energy standard differs from a renewable portfolio standard insofar as it permits utilities to derive electricity from more than just green fuels. Under Obama’s CES, firms could meet the standard using renewable sources, nuclear power, combined […]

I’m not a big fan of Semi-Homemade Sandra Lee as recipe writer, cook, or TV personality. But as a political spouse, she’s the best we have. First of all, she’s not actually a political spouse: She and her sometime housemate, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have not tied the knot, nor does Lee seem to […]

Over at Grist, Dave Roberts is publishing installments of an interesting conservation he had with The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal about Powering the Dream, Madrigal’s new book on the history of green-energy technology. Yesterday, Madrigal made a great, overarching point about the gap between environmentalists and clean-energy advocates, who in recent years increasingly have come together […]

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty is introducing his supporters to his finance team this morning, and it caught my attention that one of his finance consultants, Andrea Evans, is focusing on Arizona. Evans is based in Phoenix and worked on McCain’s 2008 campaign as Arizona’s finance director, so it’s not surprising that the Pawlenty campaign assigned […]

As Adam wrote yesterday, Rep. Peter King’s hearings on Muslim radicalization were “relatively sane.” But I just wanted to point to another piece of evidence that shows why King feels comfortable, even satisfied, with the work he’s doing. His stance is very much in tune with the political views of his constituents, as documented in […]