Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Pipeline shutdown prevented 34 million tons of carbon pollution in California

“We need to end offshore drilling, not bring it back to life with another dirty oil pipeline.”

States sue Trump EPA for suspending environmental regulations during pandemic

Polluters are allowed, at their sole discretion, to stop monitoring and reporting air emissions and water pollution levels during the outbreak.

Here’s how shareholders are pressuring oil companies to act on climate change

Rather than withdraw investments from companies that profit from extracting fossil fuels, investors seek to leverage their financial stakes to influence companies like Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil to take action on climate change.

Climate deniers argue carbon pollution is beneficial, again take aim at EPA’s endangerment finding

Opponents of climate action are publishing flawed studies in scientific journals to support false claims that align with the fossil fuel industry’s deregulatory agenda.

Federal Judge: Pipelines must not cross streams without considering endangered species

“Today’s ruling makes clear that climate-busting pipelines like Keystone XL cannot be built until the federal government does its job and properly analyzes these projects’ devastating effects on their surrounding communities and wildlife.”
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As oil price plummets, call to nationalize industry rises

Nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.

Trump signs executive order greenlighting ‘corporate takeover of our oceans while they hope we...

Environmental groups sued the EPA over the move, which they condemned as a "free pass for polluters."

Brazil using pandemic as smokescreen for new attacks on the Amazon, activists warn

"The invaders think they can enter the indigenous reserve because of the government agenda."

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.

Replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods could prevent 1.6 billion tons of...

“Moving the American appetite from our burger-heavy diet to plant-based eating is a powerful and necessary part of curbing the climate crisis.”