Our post-carbon future depends on electric vehicles – our Congress controls their economic lifeline
The fossil fuel industry is working hard to eliminate a tax credit that reduces emissions and creates jobs.
US annually uses 388 million pounds of potentially fatal pesticides banned in the EU,...
Eighty-five pesticides currently in use across the country have been banned or are in the process of being phased out in the three nations, in large part due to their harmful impact on human health or the environment.
‘Frightening:’ Plant extinction is occurring 500 times faster than before human intervention
"Plant extinction is bad news for all species."
‘We are facing an existential crisis:’ Gov. Inslee slams DNC for refusing to hold...
“This is our last chance to defeat climate change. We will not have another chance after the next administration. We will either act now, or it will be cataclysm.”
Canada announces plan to ban single-use plastics
“As early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful single-use plastics from coast to coast.”
EPA moves to fight states’ power to deny dirty energy projects
The new guidelines threaten the division of state and federal authorities in order to please the fossil fuel industry.
DNC will not host climate-specific presidential primary debate and plans to punish candidates that...
"The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time."
‘Vastly underestimated’: New study shows methane emissions are 100 times higher than previously thought
"We took one small industry that most people have never heard of and found that its methane emissions were three times higher than the EPA assumed was emitted by all industrial production in the United States."
Trump wants to make Alaska’s protected wilderness a hunting ground
The Trump administration has shown a penchant for supplicating itself to trophy hunters and trappers.
The unseen threat: Noise in the Arctic marine environment
Increasing levels of underwater noise threaten Arctic whales, seals, fish and other species. A new report offers an opportunity for Arctic nations to lead on the issue.