Monday, August 11, 2025

Mainstream news prioritizes big business and opponents of climate action – study

“Whether we’re talking about social advocacy groups or businesses, I’m finding that most messages these groups put out are in favor of climate action.”

Did senators rush through Rick Perry’s energy dept hearing to attend corporate-sponsored inaugural lunch?

It looks like Perry has the votes necessary to become the next Secretary of Energy.

Study finds connection between living near oil and gas development and childhood leukemia

Fracking and horizontal drilling have enabled oil and gas development to encroach more and more into places where people live.

Biden plans to cut U.S. climate pollution in half by 2030

“We cannot preach temperance from a barstool and not pay our fair share when approximately 40% of all the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is red, white and blue.”

New lawsuit challenges ‘fast-track’ permits used for oil and gas pipelines nationwide

For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.
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The solutions to the climate crisis no one is talking about

In light of the latest IPCC report on climate change, it’s crucial we remember these four steps to avoiding a climate catastrophe.

‘Climate Clock’ shows rich nations still owe $90 billion a year to global green...

"We are in a climate emergency, and without drastic corrective action on track for climate catastrophe."
Construction along the Keystone XL pipeline.

Nebraska approves Keystone XL pipeline

Nebraska law barred regulators from considering spills or pipeline safety in its decision-making process, because who cares about the environment anyways, right?

Inside the Trump admin’s fight to keep the Keystone XL approval process secret

“The Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has been nothing but smoke and mirrors.”

Right-wing Supreme Court justices ‘just further poisoned your water’

The move, said one attorney, "shows disregard for the integrity of the Clean Water Act and undermines the rights of tribes and states to review and reject dirty fossil fuel projects that threaten their water."