Local action on climate and public health is working (just ask the fossil fuel industry)

Nathan Taft
Stand.earth
Published in
4 min readAug 31, 2021

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Residents gather in Whatcom County, WA about passing new land-use laws to block new fossil fuel facilities

The fossil fuel industry is on its heels. That’s not an opinion — that’s a fact. Fossil fuel stocks are tanking. Public support is dropping. And perhaps most concerning to executives who would see the world burn (literally) before supporting a change in the status quo, is that more governments are taking steps to legislate an equitable…

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Nathan Taft
Stand.earth

Firm believer in Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) and that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Twitter: @nathantaft