Majority of directors of world’s top insurance companies tied to polluting industries
Analysis found links to Exxon, Koch Industries, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, raising concerns about a potential “revolving door,” one campaigner said, between the insurance and fossil fuel industries.
The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has it been neglected...
How can oceans help us tackle the climate crisis? And what progress has been made in international negotiations?
How to get past despair to powerful action on climate change
The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 9, 2018
The first ever Muslim Congresswoman, Zinke blames wildfires on environmentalists, Trump wants to open California's public lands to fracking, and more.
EU votes to label gas and nuclear power investments as ‘green’
"Russia’s war against Ukraine is a war paid for by climate-heating fossil fuels and the European parliament just voted to boost billions of funding to fossil gas from Russia."
Indigenous-led solutions essential to reversing plastic pollution, researchers say
Putting Indigenous insight and policy at the forefront is essential to keeping local viewpoints from being silenced by corporate forces and combating the issue of waste colonialism.
Why plans to turn America’s Rust Belt into a new plastics belt are bad...
Climate implications make a petrochemical build-out risky, not only from an environmental perspective, but also from a fiscal perspective.
2018 wasn’t a completely horrible year for the environment
There were bright spots and victories among the attacks on biodiversity, climate and public health.
54% of new electric-generating capacity in U.S. will be solar in 2023, EIA says
Texas will be home to the highest amount of new solar capacity at 7.7 gigawatts, followed by California at 4.2 gigawatts.
New study shows plastic pollution threatens human health on a global scale
“The heavy toxic burdens associated with plastic – at every stage of its life cycle – offers another convincing argument why reducing and not increasing production of plastics is the only way forward. Plastic is lethal, and this report shows us why.”









