EPA’s controversial science proposal roll out date pushed back after receiving 600,000 public comments
But the EPA's "agenda to sideline science" is still front and center.
Government loophole sacrificed $18 billion to Big Oil
The loophole dates back to a 1995 law that urged companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico by offering oil companies a break from paying royalties on the oil produced.
To save the planet, we need to demilitarize the police
Even with climate disasters all around us, nonviolent environmental demonstrations face fierce police repression. Why?
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 17, 2018
Words from the Unite the Right organizer, Trump's military parade is costing millions, Glyphosate found in popular children's foods, and more.
Study shows pension funds’ refusal to divest from fossil fuels cost retired teachers, firefighters,...
"As long as PERA's money remains invested in the fossil fuel industry, that investment supports an industry that has willfully denied its role in climate change, accelerating today's climate crisis in favor of profits."
Youth strikes worldwide demand climate action that centers ‘people not profit’
"The current system is widening the inequality gap—it has no place in our society."
Trump’s EPA is changing its math to make clean power plan rollback seem less...
"Using fake math to hide the death toll from dirty air at the behest of the coal industry is sadly consistent with the Trump administration's complete disregard for public health."
‘We don’t trust Enbridge’: Indigenous women push Biden to block line 5 expansion
"The construction of this pipeline will bring massive risk and destruction. We do not want to see irreversible damage to our land, water, and wild rice. We do not want our lifeways destroyed."
Massive resistance means the Trans Mountain Pipeline fight rages on
"People across British Columbia do not want this pipeline built and will make sure it isn't."
Former Superfund Site becomes largest landfill solar farm in North America
The project is just one example of an innovative trend turning symptoms of throwaway culture into sites for generating renewable energy.