You may love EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). Or you may hate it. Maybe you are somewhere in between those two views. But wherever you stand, it’s undeniable that the protracted and expensive fight over the CPP has become a very inefficient response to a problem that gets worse every day.

There was exciting news Labor Day Weekend about the world’s efforts to tackle climate change. In Hangzhou, China, where the G20 leaders met to work their way through a number of major issues, President Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping announced their formal ratification of December’s Paris climate accord.

Over Labor Day weekend we may hear major climate change news from Hangzhou, China. That’s where the G20 leaders will be meeting to work their way through a number of major issues. Negotiators for the United States and China have been trying to agree on terms for ratification of the Paris climate accord so that they can announce it in Hangzhou or in the days leading up to the summit.

The Bering Sea continues to swallow the Alaskan Native village Shishmaref, and on August 16 residents voted to leave their 400-year-old home. The village has been losing up to 10 feet of shoreline a year, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Auburn University. Since 1969, 200 feet of shoreline has been eaten away, a state-funded study concluded. 

If you’re in Philadelphia, Washington, or any of the other places where the mercury is soaring, stop complaining. On July 22, the temperature hit 129 degrees in Basra, Iraq. Stepping outside is like “walking into a fire,” said Zainab Guman, a university student in Basra told The Washington Post’s Hugh Naylor. “It’s like everything on your body — your skin, your eyes, your nose — starts to burn,” she said.