OBITUARY
Remembering Walter Mondale: VP and climate advocate
MINNEAPOLIS — "I don't like wasting my time slaying windmills," Walter Mondale quipped in 1972, when campaigning for a second term to the U.S. Senate.
Daniel Cusick
Reporter
Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Latest Stories
ADAPTATION
N.D. ponies up another $435M for Fargo flood project
North Dakota lawmakers have doubled down on their support for a massive Red River flood control project for the city of Fargo with an additional $435 million commitment to the long-awaited effort.
PENTAGON
Biden plan would boost climate defenses at military bases
Military installations along storm-battered American coasts could see a surge in infrastructure spending as the Biden administration seeks to harden the Department of Defense against asymmetric threats like climate change.
CLIMATE IMPACTS
A small city pays for flood walls at 2 global companies
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is building flood walls around facilities owned by two of the world's largest agribusinesses. It raises questions about who should pay the costs of adapting to climate change.
EXTREME WEATHER
Climate-fueled heat waves pose dire threat to crops — study
Future agricultural losses from heat waves could be 10 times greater than previously thought, experts say — a dire projection that fuels uncertainty for an economic sector already stressed by climate change.