We're fortunate to have an administration again that believes in climate change and believes

it's the role of government to do something about it.

We still have quite a bit of work to do in the financial regulatory space.

The challenge, of course, to addressing climate change is to rewire the economy with new

regulations and incentives so that the economic activity creates a more sustainable planet,

not a less sustainable planet.

From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics,

with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.

The death toll is rising from that historic heatwave broiling the West and it's feeling a wave

of dangerous wildfires.

Throughout the heatwave, Washington State reported more than 1300 emergency room visits

for heat-related illnesses.

Officials believe the increase in fatalities is likely linked to the extreme weather.

Death Valley saw 130 degrees pushing toward the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.

Nearly one half of the country from the Pacific coast to the Great Plains and the Upper Midwest

is experiencing moderate to exceptional drought conditions.

It's expected to get worse through the summer.

Snow cover is the lowest it's been in the 21 years that NASA satellites have been monitoring it.

There simply isn't enough water to go around.

It's shaping up to be the worst water crisis in generations.

There is no meteorologist who would have said, yeah,

can get to 121 in Canada, but we need to switch our thinking because we live in a climate-changed

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