Wednesday, August 13, 2025

EU passes landmark law to restore 20% of land and sea by 2030 despite...

In a narrow vote, the EU adopts a crucial nature restoration law, sparking controversy and political turmoil.
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Is U.S. climate policy killing capitalism?

It’s the Koch Brothers and the rest of Big Oil, and Big Gas, and Big Coal.

Texas company exposed by DeSmog for radioactive fracking waste practices threatens legal action

Both during and after DeSmog’s investigation, Lotus LLC has tried various approaches to keep information about the company under wraps.

Want to create jobs? Reduce fossil fuel use

Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels – and at a faster rate and lower cost.

Big oil faces mounting legal battles over climate threats to its New England Oil...

The communities surrounding these terminals are constantly at risk of being inundated with a stew of oil and toxic materials."

Biden drilling report blasted as ‘shocking capitulation to the needs of corporate polluters’

"The government's royalty rates and bonding requirements are far too low and lead to public money subsidizing Big Oil's profits while our federal lands and waters suffer egregious harm."

Hidden carbon subsidies will destroy us

Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

Can we fix recycling? Some companies are trying

"People want to do the right thing, but we have to make it convenient—to make it frictionless. And that's what we aim to do."

Tons of plastic trash enter the Great Lakes every year – where does it...

According to recent estimates, over 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans every year.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 29

Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, California joins nine other states and enacts trio of gun control bills that affect domestic violence offenders and more.