The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon...
Yet with few exceptions, the U.S. military’s significant contribution to climate change has received little attention.
Fenced in: A surprising threat to coral fish and biodiversity
Massive traditional fish traps called fish fences catch hundreds of types of fish – many before they’re old enough to reproduce.
A ‘Poor People’s Moral Budget’ because ‘everybody has the right to live’
"For too long, we have turned to those with wealth and power to solve our most pressing social problems."
Charles Koch ramps up higher ed funding to fuel ‘talent pipeline’
"Charles Koch is doubling down on the multi-million dollar money dumps that buy him real control over professors."
US poised to approve shipping LNG by rail for export with no new safety...
And all in the name of exporting fracked gas to the highest bidder abroad.
New California bill could revolutionize how the U.S. tackles plastic pollution
A sweeping “circular economy” bill in the California legislature aims to drastically reduce plastic waste and boost domestic recycling.
Mother Earth vs. capitalism, private property & rapture fundamentalists
The great insight from the last century or so: imperial powers profit more from exploiting natural resources than bashing foreign heads.
Green New Deal “climate kids” should hijack the impeachment conversation
"If Democrats are unwilling to do the right thing and assist at that suicide, today’s real grownups—you climate kids—must embarrass them into doing so."
The year of the Green New Deal
Offering hope for a better future over the rage in vogue on the right, motivating young people to vote and getting more citizens to organize in their communities is how we will win.
‘The polluter should pay:’ Pennsylvania bill aims to ease PFAS-related drinking water charges
Proposed legislation would use funds from development on contaminated sites to help offset costs of cleaning tainted drinking water.