Rachael Goldberg

Drilling the Coast: Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan

Rachael Goldberg May 1, 2018 0 Comments

By: Rachael Goldberg On April 20th, 2010, the world witnessed the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years after this devastating disaster, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), under the U.S. Department of the Interior, is in the midst of developing a...

A COP in Brackets

Jenna Farineau November 20, 2016 0 Comments

The 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Marrakech, Morocco, from November 7th to November 18th. In this blog post, the Earth in Brackets members who attended the conference reflect on their experiences and on the possible ways forward for the climate activist movement. Jenna Farineau: For 22 years, the world has been...

The Day Donald Trump Got Elected

Rachael Goldberg November 11, 2016 1 Comment

by Rachael Goldberg Waking up, I was expecting this whole election mess to be over. Hillary Clinton was going to be president and while there would be a lot of work to do, at least the fact that I am a woman would mean celebration and not an 1850s sense of fear. When I walked into the kitchen and saw the faces of the people eating breakfast, I felt less certain. They told me that Donald...