Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Controversial Keystone XL pipeline gets green light from Trump

"The #KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline was a bad idea from Day One and it remains a terrible idea today."
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Puerto Rico faces a flood of fracked gas in wake of Hurricane Maria

The gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.

Guns, climate denial and conspiracies: Al Jazeera captures Australian far right political figures meeting...

The exchange with the petrochemical giants, from September 2018, is part of a blockbuster hidden-camera investigative series released by Al Jazeera.
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‘Tell that to the families in Flint:’ AOC demolishes GOP claim that Green New...

New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back with a passionate defense of the Green New Deal.

While McConnell tries to rush Green New Deal vote, Senate Democrats vote ‘present’ to...

"This is about our lives, and this should not be partisan. Science should not be partisan."

We need an ecological revolution

To save the long-term future for our children and grandchildren, and for all the other creatures with which we share the gift of life, we must overcome the inertia of our institutions and our culture.

Warren, Sanders, and Gillibrand top performers on 2020 climate leadership scorecard

"We're making it clear where 2020 candidates land on the policies and practices essential to any meaningful attempt at addressing the climate crisis."

Trump’s pick to head Interior blocked report warning of pesticide risk to 1,000+ endangered...

"It's outrageous that Trump, Bernhardt and the industry hacks inhabiting this administration are speeding the extinction of nearly 1,400 endangered species by refusing to take any action on chlorpyrifos."

Oil industry ponders getting ‘dragged into low-carbon future’ while claiming it ‘stepped up’ on...

As the DeSmog series Fracking for Plastics notes, Saetre is not alone in his ambition to either burn all the oil and gas or turn it into plastics.

Carbon emissions reach record high worldwide in 2018

"[D]espite major growth in renewables, global emissions are still rising, demonstrating once again that more urgent action is needed on all fronts."