‘Welcome progress’: 20+ nations vow to end funding for overseas fossil fuel projects
“This public money needs to be urgently redirected into a just energy transition.”
Coors becomes largest US beer brand to replace plastic rings with sustainable alternative
“So we’re eliminating plastic rings from our packaging, starting this year and finishing by 2025."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 1, 2018
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse, Trump tweaks capital gains to benefit the rich, US deports parents but keeps their children, and more.
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities
Divestment debates are forcing colleges and universities to reconsider how to contribute to a more resilient and sustainable future.
One major way we can reduce the suffering of animals raised for food
Veterinarians have an opportunity to uphold medical ethics—and give the nation’s factory-farmed animals a small bit of mercy when they are killed.
Oil-by-rail rises once again as safety rules disappear
Both the U.S. and Canada are taking steps that ignore or undermine the lessons and regulatory measures to improve safety since the oil train explosions and spills of years past.
Crisis or catastrophe: nothing changes
As delegates prepare for COP27 and fossil fuel companies report record profits, the environmental emergency couldn’t be more pressing; the need for action by governments, corporations and populations more urgent, and the stench of complacency more pungent.
Student reporters in West Virginia find Atlantic Coast Pipeline offers only two dozen permanent...
“It was trouble finding out how many jobs the pipeline would create.”
‘Are you serious?’ John Kerry interrupts GOP climate denial logic in disbelief
Meanwhile, the Republicans on the committee indicated they intend to do nothing but continue a long history of delay and denial on climate change.
Arctic word games or Indigenous survival?
Indigenous leaders call climate change an urgent threat that requires a global response (an idea that was trashed by the Trump administration).









