JPMorgan Chase announces end to financing new oil and gas drilling in Arctic
“The fact that even the world’s worst fossil fuel banker wants nothing to do with Arctic Refuge drilling shows just how toxic an investment it would be."
New UK study proves plastic bag legislation is working
"Great to see less plastic bags in our oceans, but we need the government to put an end to the use of all avoidable single-use plastic by 2025."
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.
Oil pipeline spills 53,000 gallons on First Nations land
It is currently unclear how the leak happened or which company operates the underground pipeline that breached.
Whales and dolphins bear the brunt as seas turn toxic
Marine sentinel alert: new study exposes alarming toxic heavy metal levels in stranded whales and dolphins, highlighting a hidden threat to marine life and human health.
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.
15 lawmakers plotting to privatize America’s public lands
With the West already losing to development one football field's worth of natural areas every two and a half minutes, these shared lands are more important than ever.
Chickens are smarter than you think
Factory farming has made us think of chickens as mindless automata. But our downy friends know much more than we give them credit for.
Bankers eager to continue funding oil and gas
Comments from a recent energy industry conference reveal major financiers of fossil fuels view environmental and social investing concerns as a trend to “inoculate” against.
Trump administration eliminates protections for vast ocean monument — experts react
Here’s why the action is so harmful, how it’s possibly illegal, and why it won’t help struggling fishing communities.