Our post-carbon future depends on electric vehicles – our Congress controls their economic lifeline
The fossil fuel industry is working hard to eliminate a tax credit that reduces emissions and creates jobs.
US annually uses 388 million pounds of potentially fatal pesticides banned in the EU,...
Eighty-five pesticides currently in use across the country have been banned or are in the process of being phased out in the three nations, in large part due to their harmful impact on human health or the environment.
‘Frightening:’ Plant extinction is occurring 500 times faster than before human intervention
"Plant extinction is bad news for all species."
‘We are facing an existential crisis:’ Gov. Inslee slams DNC for refusing to hold...
“This is our last chance to defeat climate change. We will not have another chance after the next administration. We will either act now, or it will be cataclysm.”
Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill banning whale and dolphin captivity
"Today is a really good day for animals in Canada."
Canada announces plan to ban single-use plastics
“As early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful single-use plastics from coast to coast.”
Fire and flood
This sense of the human place in the fabric of nature – that there may be a deep connection between inner and outer weather – is starting to seem a thing of the past.
Will Ohio River get optional pollution limits as new fracking-reliant plastics industry moves in?
“To me, this feels like an invasion."
EPA moves to fight states’ power to deny dirty energy projects
The new guidelines threaten the division of state and federal authorities in order to please the fossil fuel industry.
Americans’ extinction denial syndrome
As the mad globalization of the economy and the funneling of all wealth to the tiniest segment of the ultra-rich carries on apace, perhaps the rest of us, struggling just to make the monthly payments for shelter and food, are losing that primal urge so critical to species survival.