Thursday, October 8, 2026

Hidden carbon subsidies will destroy us

Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

These 11 climate science deniers are attending the COP26 climate summit

CFACT and the Heartland Institute are hosting an alternative side event — but “these days, almost no-one cares,” says one climate expert.

Electric school bus commitments in the US more than doubled in 2023

Electric school buses operating in the U.S. rose from 598 in 2022 to 1,285 in June 2023.

Forget Exxon – big meat and dairy could single-handedly doom the planet

We must stop these meat and dairy giants from destroying the climate and work towards making our small farmers, herders and ranchers resilient.

Environmental protection head rejects ban on chemical insecticide

The chemical is currently used on over 40,000 farms in the U.S.

People who want to ban fracking immediately, says Joe Biden, ‘oughta vote for someone...

"Might I recommend Bernie Sanders: the climate candidate."

Coral disease spreading in Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships

Since the identification of the disease off Virginia Key in 2014, it has spread to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and Mexico.

Arctic Sea Ice Levels Hit Record Low After Unusually Warm January

Observations show an increase in the rate of winter sea ice loss in the North Atlantic sector of the Arctic up until the late 1990s followed by a slowdown in more recent years.
The headquarters of CalSTRS, the California teachers' pension fund at the center of The Lever's reporting. Photo: Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly

The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.

Almost all air samples from agriculture-intensive communities in California detects high levels of pesticides

The result of the state's air monitoring confirmed 163 of the 207 air samples showed pesticides.