Alaska drilling project squashed by court decision was touted by oil-friendly former Trump official
The official’s comments, alongside the court’s ruling, cast doubt on the integrity of the Trump administration’s approval process for oil and gas development in Alaska.
Greta Thunberg: 5 Years after Paris Agreement, world is ‘speeding in the wrong direction’...
“The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute."
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé are worst plastic polluters of 2020, have made ‘zero progress,’ new...
"The world's top polluting corporations claim to be working hard to solve plastic pollution, but instead they are continuing to pump out harmful single-use plastic packaging."
Major fossil fuel PR group is behind Europe pro-hydrogen push
The industry is spending heavily to again deceptively sell the myth that hydrogen—a fossil fuel based gas just like methane—is the new bridge fuel.
New York state’s pension fund will divest from fossil fuel
This is being hailed as "the most aggressive divestment target set by any U.S. pension fund by a decade."
A tipping point for the defeat of fossil fuels?
How to stop Big Energy in its tracks (quite literally)...
Green groups call on future Biden White House to overturn new EPA rule announced...
“This rule will distort EPA’s assessment of the benefits of Clean Air Act safeguards, making it harder to establish vital, life-saving protections against unhealthy air pollution.”
Human society and the biosphere
In corporate-controlled countries like the United States, the word “socialism” is an anathema; but nations everywhere in the world might benefit from the Scandinavian model of socialism.
Biden can restore the EPA, but it will require steadfast effort
The Biden administration must focus on science and enforcement, reverse Trump deregulation efforts and reenergize EPA employment.
Want to fight climate change? Start by protecting these endangered species
Giant forest elephants and blue whales play an enormous role in climate sequestration. Can putting a financial value on that role help conserve them—and us?