Biden administration is ‘rubber stamping’ Oil and gas permits on public land, activists say
“Congress and the Biden administration must resist that pressure and push aggressively to move the nation—and the world—away from planet-destroying fossil fuels.”
USDA announces proposal to reinstate protections for Tongass National Forest
While the Trump administration tried to open 9.2 million acres of the forest to logging and roadbuilding, the USDA's proposal will effectively reinstate the protections for Tongass National Forest.
Climate law pushes First Solar to invest in domestic renewable energy industry
According to the company, this move is in large part because of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden signed into law this month to help combat climate change.
America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report charges
CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.
What will we remember of 2022?
Let me start 2022 by heading back — way, way back — for a moment.
It’s easy to forget...
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.
Here’s why you can’t afford an electric car
The U.S. is aggressively keeping cheap Chinese-made EVs off the market. We are all paying the price for this protectionism.
‘America the beautiful’: Biden administration aims to protect 30% of US lands and waters...
“This is a critical opportunity for Americans to come together to build a new, more inclusive model of conservation to save nature, and ultimately ourselves,” said one advocate.
Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking Movement
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation just denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a 124-mile fracked gas pipeline.
EPA to rollback Obama-era coal ash regulations that safeguard Americans
"Instead of having a single strong national set of public health protections for this polluting industry, we are going to be left with federal regulations that are riddled with loopholes."