Melinda Tuhus

Time is short, and these three interconnected issues will determine what the future of humankind looks like.

Two million people – including a million children – do not deserve to starve in Gaza.

The law requires fossil fuel companies to pay compensation for the pollution they’ve emitted since 2000.

We need to be open to making common cause with Trump supporters who become disillusioned with their leader when he does nothing to help them.

Climate activists arrested at the PGA Championship say their focus is on “the things people love and will miss” due to the devastation of climate chaos.

You could suggest just about any topic and I could think of a Gaza connection, because Gaza is on my mind. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

We need to end fossil fuels to keep rising sea levels from washing over our Connecticut shoreline, to keep heat waves and flooding due to heavy rainfall from getting even worse…,

The annual COP conference on the climate crisis is a contradiction. It has a giant carbon footprint, including emissions from private jet-setting fossil fuel CEOs.

A side deal struck by Democrats during passage of the Inflation Reduction Act would allow construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Could growth of the renewable energy industry result from Europe’s effort to reduce its dependence on Russian oil and gas?

While the climate-related disasters have been piling up for a long time, this year has been, as they say, off the charts.

A new U.N. report focuses on the importance of curtailing methane emissions as absolutely critical to reducing the threat of runaway climate change. This report vindicates what environmentalists in Connecticut have said for years, that building more fracked gas (so-called natural gas, which is nearly 100 percent methane) infrastructure is not a bridge to the future, it’s a bridge to disaster.

It feels like the bloom is off the rose of our country’s love affair with fossil fuels. Connecticut should join in and jilt its gassy lover. Gov. Ned Lamont is on the record saying he doesn’t want the proposed power plant in Killingly, but seems unwilling to stop it. He should take a page from our neighbor, New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration killed two proposed fracked gas pipelines in the past few years by declining to issue required permits.