Michael Coren

1 day ago | washingtonpost.com | Michael Coren

How you can shop for money-saving appliances if Trump ends Energy Star (washingtonpost.com) How you can shop for money-saving appliances if Trump ends Energy Star By Michael J. Coren 2025051310000000 What's extraordinarily popular, saves American families about $450 annually and may go away very soon? The Energy Star program. Like roughly 90 percent of the public, you may know Energy Star by its iconic blue stickers on high-efficiency appliances.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Michael Coren

For years, researchers and activists believed explaining the science of climate change had the power to rouse policymakers and the public to stop it. It hasn’t worked out that way. Even as an overheating climate ravages the planet, the idea of a world beset by floods, droughts and rising seas still feels like a distant threat for many - affecting other people in other places way off in the future. When alarm does break through, it’s easy to feel paralyzed by the problem.

Dec 16, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Michael Coren |Naema Ahmed |Kevin Crowe

As insurers pass on the costs of rising climate risk, here are strategies to find insurance coverage that protects your home at a price you can afford.

Dec 2, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Michael Coren

My daughter was born yesterday. There are many things I plan to share with her: taking her first steps into the cold Pacific Ocean; hooting back at the owls haunting our backyard; and strapping on a backpack for our first trip into the Sierra Nevada one day. Those, and a million other experiences, I'll relive for the first time. But there are as many things I'm afraid she will never know. The world my daughter will grow up in will have billions of fewer birds flying through its skies.

Nov 19, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Michael Coren |Naema Ahmed |Kevin Crowe

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