How a cooperative run by the formerly incarcerated is reshaping Chicago’s food industry
Megacorporations tend to dominate food contracting with schools and other large facilities in America. In Chicago, Black formerly incarcerated people are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
Total’s East African crude oil pipeline ‘struggling’ to find financiers, say campaigners
Total’s “incredibly risky” crude oil pipeline may still lack the financial backing it requires, campaigners have claimed, as the controversial project moved...
Department of the Interior announces funding for states to clean up orphaned oil and...
“The Department is taking a thoughtful and methodical approach to implementing the orphaned oil and gas well program that aims to get money to states as quickly as possible while being responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars."
How the PR industry has helped Big Oil transform the way we think about...
The role of PR agents has been to create and execute strategies for their clients while remaining completely invisible.
Los Angeles’ long, troubled history with urban oil drilling is nearing an end after...
The state has proposed a 3,200-foot setback rule for new wells, but this has not yet gone into effect and does little to address health concerns for residents who live near existing wells.
More than two dozen major lawsuits are putting a price tag on the climate...
Four years ago, Boulder, Colorado, sued ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy—owner of the only oil refinery in the state—for climate change-related damages and...
Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has withdrawn as a cooperating agency from the U.S Federal government’s ongoing environmental assessment of the Dakota...
Plants face tough climate challenges as seed-dispersing animals decline
Animals that eat fruit and spread the seeds in their droppings offer an all-inclusive transportation service for half the world’s flora. But as...
Individuals are not to blame for the climate crisis
Generation Z has grown up in the shadow of the climate crisis. Global leaders promised they would act. But despite grave warnings...
How climate change is washing away precious evidence of our distant past
Archaeologists and policymakers are now working side by side to keep peatlands protected environments, to help capture and preserve both carbon and the evidence of the UK’s history.