Today’s children will face lifelong health effects from the climate crisis
"Without immediate action from all countries climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation.”
How to shop sustainably
Some clothes are more environmentally friendly than others. Here’s how to find them.
Exxon could have helped stop climate change 30 years ago, ‘proprietary’ docs show
Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.
Reversing Trump rollback, Biden’s EPA announces historically ambitious vehicle emissions standards
"Before this presidential term ends, the administration must issue long-term standards strong enough to usher in the age of electric vehicles."
Pipeline resistance broadens: On the day Dakota Access oil flows, go one day without...
Let’s do what it takes to remind the companies, and the government itself, who’s really in charge of the economy.
Court allows Trump to bulldoze environmental laws for border wall
"Congress has ceded its authority to Trump, who has swept aside fundamental public safety and environmental laws to build walls that won't work."
Undercover investigations expose brutal wildlife killing contests
Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states.
Renewable energy surpasses 30% of global electricity supply for first time ever
According to Ember’s executive summary of the report, record solar and wind construction in 2023 means “a new era of falling fossil generation is imminent.”
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 4, 2018
New ICE policy gives immigrant families a cruel choice, two more government agencies ax climate change from their websites, a majority of Americans want Citizens United overturned, and more.
EPA extends use of Monsanto’s controversial pesticide dicamba on GM soybean and cotton plants
"Simply adding more use restrictions to an uncontrollable pesticide that already comes with 39 pages of instructions and limitations reflects a broken process."