EPA gives school districts across U.S. nearly $1 billion to buy clean school buses
“It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution″
Democratic leaders push forward “weak” congressional panel instead of a Green New Deal
This new select committee is simply a revival of an old climate panel but has even less authority than its predecessor.
Ocean warming study so distressing, some scientists didn’t even want to talk about it
Researchers examining the ocean off the east coast of North America found that the water's surface was 13.8°C, or 14.8°F, hotter than the average temperature between 1981 and 2011.
Youth challenge 32 European nations in ‘truly historic’ climate trial
Lawyers representing six Portuguese young people said the youth were being discriminated against by state inaction in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of which have been “foreseeable for decades.”
Coal capacity increased 2% globally in 2023, the most since 2016
Retire coal plants faster or 'forget about' Paris goals, energy expert says.
Chemical fallout from East Palestine train disaster spreads across 16 states, study reveals
The derailment, which involved a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials, has had far-reaching impacts, with pollutants spreading over 540,000 square miles, significantly larger in scale and scope than initially predicted.
Biden-Harris administration’s bold plan to phase out single-use plastics across federal agencies
The Biden-Harris administration has announced significant commitments to eliminate single-use plastics from federal operations by 2035, with interim goals set for 2027, marking a crucial step in tackling the plastic pollution crisis.
Keystone Lawsuit Illustrates Enviros’ Big Problem With TPP
The Canadian company behind the Keystone Pipeline is suing the U.S. government. It’s a perfect example of why many environmentalists are wary of Obama’s secretive trade deals.
‘We have so much more to do,’ youth climate activists declare as global elite...
"We are just trying to show them that we are doing the right thing despite the fact that we are not sleeping or staying in the best conditions."
How climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease
A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said.