Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe renews legal challenge against DAPL

“The Dakota Access Pipeline represents a clear and present danger to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its people, and we will continue to fight until the Corps complies with the law.”

Big Oil spends record millions to defeat the nation’s first carbon tax

Washington state currently ranks fifth in the nation in crude oil refining capacity for making gasoline and other petroleum products.

How Big Oil dodges Facebook’s new ad transparency rules

We’ve identified 12 ad campaigns in which energy, insurance and other industries masked their sponsorship of political messages on Facebook.

Oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than scientists thought

It means that policy makers now have even less leeway when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions if they want to keep warming to 1.5 or even 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations in the last 50 years

We are the 'last generation' that can save our planet.

Weakened Chinese law against endangered rhinos and tigers has animal rights activists worried

While China's reversal of a 25-year-old law came as a shock to many, other animal rights activists saw it coming due to the growing number of tiger farms in the country.

Peak shale: Is the US fracking industry already in decline?

Has the industry run out of good rock?

Halt to youth climate lawsuit inspires nationwide resistance

The three-year-long case has survived countless obstacles and the 21 youth plaintiffs don't plan on backing down now.

First ‘Red’ level tremor at UK fracking site put legal pause on operations

Cuadrilla Resources was forced by law to pause operations at its site in Lancashire, England when a tremor with a magnitude of 0.8 took place in the area Friday morning.

Why plans to turn America’s Rust Belt into a new plastics belt are bad...

Climate implications make a petrochemical build-out risky, not only from an environmental perspective, but also from a fiscal perspective.