Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Fracking caused Pennsylvania earthquakes, new report confirms

The disposal of wastewater produced from fracking has led to the alarming increase of earthquakes.

US air pollution regulation saved over 1.5 billion birds

“Our research shows that the benefits of environmental regulation have likely been underestimated.”

Funding for ‘sustainable biomass’ a drop in the ocean compared with Drax subsidies, campaigners...

Critics say the North Yorkshire power station is likely to continue burning wood pellets for electricity, and that the amounts granted to new projects are too low to result in any significant technological breakthroughs.

Coors becomes largest US beer brand to replace plastic rings with sustainable alternative

“So we’re eliminating plastic rings from our packaging, starting this year and finishing by 2025."

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 1, 2018

ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse, Trump tweaks capital gains to benefit the rich, US deports parents but keeps their children, and more.

Brazil’s beef industry linked to deforestation in Amazon

800 million trees were cut down in six years due to cattle ranching, which accounts for 80 percent of current deforestation throughout the Amazon.

Earth’s land and trees absorbed almost no net carbon in 2023

The planet’s ability to absorb carbon weakening even moderately would make much steeper reductions in greenhouse gas emissions necessary to get to net zero.

Big Oil needs to pay for the damage it caused

"Justice demands real money moving from the global North to the global South to compensate for the damage we’ve done."

Upside-down world

Climate change and the border-industrial complex in the Trump era.