Wednesday, October 14, 2026

US leads the world in plastic pollution, new study finds

"The U.S. has a relatively robust waste infrastructure, yet an estimated five times as much plastic pollution entered the oceans in 2016 than in 2010."

State backers of anti-protest bills received campaign funding from oil and gas industry, report...

Legal experts have warned that critical infrastructure laws may well be unconstitutional.

Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina announce new regional partnership in massive clean offshore wind...

"Coming together regionally also makes the Mid-Atlantic that much more attractive to offshore wind manufacturers to locate here, which in turn creates tens of thousands of jobs in each of our respective states.”

Nuclear power industry given $1.4 billion from Trump administration

Countries should be focusing more on renewable energy to lower emissions instead of focusing on nuclear power.

US Presidential Election 2020: How the outcome could affect the Canada and climate change

The candidates know about the need to proceed cautiously regardless of their broader positions on environmental change.

Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires

Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires, but science doesn’t support that.

US Fish and Wildlife Service delists gray wolves from Endangered Species Act

The final rule, which excludes Mexican wolves, will be published in the Federal Register on Nov. 3 and go into effect 60 days later.

Trump approved shipping tar sands by rail to Alaska. The project’s owners are banking...

“The irony of seeing the melting Arctic as a route to get more planet-heating carbon out of the ground is almost too deep and sad for words.”

UN report says up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless...

Rather than prioritising the prevention of pandemic outbreaks, governments around the world primarily focus on responding.