Saturday, April 20, 2024

Placing ‘politics about pollution control’ EPA drops surprise inspections for chemical and power plants

“Taking the element of surprise away from inspections decreases their effectiveness."

Our responsibility after Trump’s climate withdrawal

Trump follows previous U.S. presidents who have undermined climate action: The only path to climate justice is people power.

Unfair food pricing is killing family farms and regenerative farming

In February, a dairy farmer friend sent me a note confiding that a few farmers she knows are living on cereal until...

Coastal flooding trend to continue as climate crisis escalates

"America's coastal communities and their economies are suffering from the effects of high tide flooding, and it's only going to increase in the future."

European Commission gives green light to Bayer-Monsanto merger

"The coming together of these two is a marriage made in hell – bad for farmers, bad for consumers, and bad for our countryside."

Louisiana joins compact which brought out-of-state cops to Dakota Access protests

“It just seems that opposition to this pipeline is not reasonably based upon legitimate environmental concerns.”

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 4

Day one of Kavanaugh proceedings, 87 elephants found dead due to poaching, environmentalists don't vote in elections, and more.
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Climate scientist: As UN warns of global catastrophe, we need a ‘Marshall Plan’ for...

Or otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty.

To restore nature, we must invest more in our children

Understanding the connection between women’s and children’s rights, family planning, and the environmental crisis.

More than half of world’s largest companies’ net zero pledges are false promises, study...

Unmasking corporate climate pledges: a comprehensive study exposes prevalent greenwashing.