Thursday, May 2, 2024

US needs to make reducing marine plastic pollution a priority

“With plastic production growing at a rapid rate, increasing amounts of plastic can be expected to flood our blue planet with devastating consequences.”

Four years of Donald Trump could sink the planet

If Trump isn’t going to pare CO2 emissions significantly, then the US alone could cook the planet, even if China and others act more responsibly.
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25 zones along the proposed Shell Falcon Pipeline are at risk of explosions due...

A landslide caused a natural gas pipeline 35 miles west of Pittsburgh to explode on Monday. It wasn't an isolated incident.

How an application for propane fracking attempts to circumvent New York’s fracking ban

Fracking with water is a bad investment. Fracking with propane is worse.
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Puerto Rico faces a flood of fracked gas in wake of Hurricane Maria

The gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.

Can the Department of Defense win its complicated battle against climate change?

The world’s biggest institutional user of oil is grappling with the impacts of climate change.

In historic move, China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017

More than 20,000 elephants were killed for their ivory last year, leaving only about 415,000 remaining.

21 Kids Take on the Feds and Big Oil in Historic Climate Lawsuit

“The future of our generation is at stake.”
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Standing Rock chair: Obama could stop the Dakota Pipeline today & preserve Indigenous sacred...

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, police deployed pepper spray and tear gas against dozens of Native American water protectors during a standoff at Cantapeta Creek.

One million trees pledged to ‘Trump Forest’ to offset president’s anti-climate agenda

Trump Forest was launched just under a year ago after POTUS announced he was pulling the U.S. from the Paris agreement.