Fossil fuel companies keep getting sued over climate impacts. Here’s where the cases stand
“If the cases get to discovery, there will undoubtedly be further revelations about the extent of the companies' knowledge about the climate harms that the use of their products was causing and their disinformation campaigns in response.”
How the COVID-19 crisis can help fight climate change
“Just as we need a vaccine for COVID-19, climate change requires urgent solutions that can’t wait a generation. But people are moved to modify behavior based on emotion, not on research.”
Financial failure of California’s largest oil and natural gas producer could leave taxpayers with...
“If the state fails to require CRC to set aside funds to pay for its well closure obligations as part of the bankruptcy proceeding,” taxpayers could eventually foot the bill “to plug CRC’s abandoned wells.”
We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor....
Knowing how much plastic sinks to the ocean floor is an important addition to our understanding of the plastic pollution crisis.
Indigenous leaders furious after EPA grants Oklahoma control over sovereign tribal lands
“We must fight back against this underhanded ruling,” said one Indigenous leader. “In the courts, on the frontlines and in the international courts, life itself is at stake.”
Tens of millions in PPP loans went to corporate polluters after companies were fined...
Tens of millions of dollars went to companies with environmental mishaps.
As Trump scorned COVID-19 precautions, climate deniers echoed and expanded that message
Trump isn’t the only politician who’s urged inaction on both climate and COVID.
The most effective conservation is indigenous land management
American conservationists have said and done terribly racist things over the years. Now is the opportunity to center justice.
University of Cambridge announces divestment from fossil fuels after five-year student, staff campaign
The University of Cambridge announced it will "remove all direct and indirect investments in the fossil fuel industry from its £3.5 billion endowment fund by 2030."
As polls shows climate action winning issue, green campaigners mobilize for Democrats in key...
"Arizona, Iowa, Maine, and South Carolina could hardly be more different, but solid majorities of voters in each state support building a clean energy economy."