Friday, April 19, 2024

Freaky weather past and present: Is this winter weather the new normal?

Storm Uri wreaked havoc last month and has left many wondering about how often these storms will happen and why.

Analysis: Fossil fuel tax programs to cut emissions lead to lots of industry profit,...

Policies like this, including putting a price on carbon, “allow polluters to keep polluting and pay the tax.”

Oil industry ‘net-zero’ pledges are an attempt to delay climate action, new paper warns

Fossil fuel companies, experts say, “cannot be relied upon to decarbonize at the speed and scale needed” to tackle rising global emissions.

EPA chief met with Dow Chemical CEO before deciding not to ban toxic pesticide

This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards

IEA warns rich nations not doing their part in investing in clean energy

“Governments need to increase spending and policy action rapidly to meet the commitments they made in Paris in 2015.”

Eliminating emissions by 2050 could save 74 million lives

“One key takeaway is that there are a significant number of lives that can be saved by reducing emissions.”

Fossil fuel misinformation helps quash community effort to ban fracking in Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown, Ohio, has been told it cannot place an anti-fracking initiative on local ballots, due in part to a misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry.

23 gone, countless more to save

Are you angry about the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species? Good. Use it.

Congress works with Big Oil on letter suggesting anti-pipeline activists face terrorism charges

“Corporations and their governmental enablers are desperate to silence dissent every way they can.”