{"id":"8cbb512b-708a-48bd-ac75-6ee3c79ded74","url":"https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/drops-in-the-ocean-can-make-waves-how-the-grassroots-climate-movement-took-off-in-the-us","domain":"livescience.com","outlet":{"name":"Live Science","country":"US","cred":3,"lean":0,"curated":true},"title":"'Drops in the ocean can make waves': How the grassroots climate movement took off in the US","plainHeadline":"Green New Deal momentum helped climate policy rise in the US","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["In 2018, calls for a Green New Deal gained prominence in US climate policy.","Ocasio-Cortez and Markey pushed the Green New Deal framework in 2019.","IPCC warned in 2018 that emissions must fall by nearly half by 2030.","Sunrise Movement activists staged a Pelosi office sit-in endorsing the GND.","The movement reframed climate policy as a jobs-focused clean energy plan."],"topics":["Politics","Environment","Economy"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-09T08:55:51.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-09T09:50:42.667Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/6bc164b6-5108-44d2-ad02-a9fcbaf57d71","storyId":"6bc164b6-5108-44d2-ad02-a9fcbaf57d71","image":"https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tB5RXyMymoKENWVmJuxMpN-1280-80.jpg","author":"Leah Stokes","dek":"In this excerpt from \"The Carbon Wave,\" author Leah Stokes explores the lead up to that moment, and the wave of environmental action that followed."}