How climate policies hurt the poor
Over the past 25 years, nearly 1.2 billion people around the world have been lifted out of poverty, while both malnutrition and the risk of death from...
EPA acknowledges proven dangers of bee-killing pesticides but refuses to restrict them
Neonicotinoids have already been banned by the European Union, it is time they were banned here.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 17
U.S. Border Patrol supervisor confesses to executing four women, FEMA blames hurricane deaths on spousal abuse, Kavanaugh accused of assault, and more.
How a tribal rights lawyer is winning back the rights of nature
Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.
US Fish and Wildlife Service lifts ban on neonicotinoids linked to bee decline to...
"Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable species, including pollinators like bumble bees and monarch butterflies."
The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?
A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet
Supreme Court allows fracked gas pipeline’s use of eminent domain. But the pipeline’s victory...
The decision could give private companies more power to take state land, but experts point to a thicket of legal obstacles that remain in the pipeline’s way.
Oil pipeline Canada bought will cost over $25 billion and never turn profit
"Guaranteeing another $8.8 billion to complete the project will simply be throwing good money after bad," says a new analysis, "for a total taxpayer loss of $26.1 billion."
Report examines ‘Net Zero’ climate strategies, finds corporate plans lacking in lead up to...
A “Net Zero” carbon emissions approach, the keystone of many government and corporate strategies on climate change, is a pollute now, pay later strategy, a new report argues.
Our vanishing world: Glaciers
Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing...