Environment

Researchers found that people don't have to be right next to oil and gas fields to experience respiratory distress from flaring.

If progressives can't gain ground during today's hard times, full of disasters at home and abroad, then when? If progressives don't gain when the right lurches between disgrace and farce, gloating with lies that scandalize reality, then when? Bright spots surface, but what notable change, especially on income distribution, speaks to unified progressive activism?

“This is the bill we have been waiting for. It draws on the latest science to tap the treasure-trove of ocean solutions to accelerate progress on climate change. The outcome? People win, the economy wins, nature wins.”

This dereliction of consistent misleadership has put the planet on a dangerous path of climate crisis.

As the U.S. grapples with a potential boom in moving fracked natural gas-turned-LNG across this country using long, heavy unit trains, it seems like a question the FRA should be examining.

The exemption that allowed restaurants to dispense plastics is set to expire and will not be renewed.

“Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems … humans cannot.”

Unsustainable human activities are exacerbating soil salinity.

America's war for oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl.

“It is clear today that we won't be able to achieve zero gigatonnes by the end of the century without the use of carbon removal technologies.”