Climate change calls for a change of heart
Climate advocacy campaigns need to become less transactional and more transformational.
California sues Walmart for dumping hazardous waste in the state’s landfills
Of the 58 inspections conducted since 2015 of Walmart trash compactors, "dozens of materials considered either hazardous waste, medical waste or customer records containing personal information were found."
2021: Year in review for climate change wins and losses
As the climate crisis worsens, the calls for more aggressive action grow louder. 2021 saw more business as usual, industry obfuscation and delay, but also some reasons for optimism.
Russian Green Deal: Light at the end of the tunnel?
Russia is a leading carbon emitter and exporter. But change is afoot inside the country.
There’s only one essential role humans have on Earth—a humbler perspective could save the...
While the world’s oceans, nonhuman animals, and plants play starring roles in sustaining our ecosystem, why are we so bent on sabotaging it?
Reversing Trump rollback, Biden’s EPA announces historically ambitious vehicle emissions standards
"Before this presidential term ends, the administration must issue long-term standards strong enough to usher in the age of electric vehicles."
“Shut down those tanks”: anger grows in Hawaii after U.S. Navy fuel site contaminates...
“The Navy assured us and promised our state Water Resource Management Commission that this would never happen, and yet here we are.”
Goldman Sachs announces commitment to set 2030 emissions reduction targets
The commitment is to reduce the physical emissions intensity of its portfolios, and has yet to rule out support for companies expanding oil, gas and coal.
The planet is not a dumping ground
The real problem is not waste, but plastic itself.
Injustice forever? Toxic PFAS chemicals have ‘made a mockery of our environmental regulations’
With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.