US Environmental Protection Agency sweeps Iowa’s water crisis under the rug
Despite over 10,000 factory farms and almost no Clean Water Act regulation, EPA denies petition to withdraw Iowa’s pollution program.
‘Are you serious?’ John Kerry interrupts GOP climate denial logic in disbelief
Meanwhile, the Republicans on the committee indicated they intend to do nothing but continue a long history of delay and denial on climate change.
New study shows the Arctic has entered an ‘unprecedented state’ that threatens the entire...
The study is a massive conglomeration of nearly 50 years of research.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere at highest level since the the Pliocene epoch
"So, the modern climate change we see is big, really big; even by standards of Earth history."
New corals in the Great Barrier Reef on the decline after back-to-back bleaching
"We've gotten to the point now where local solutions for the reef are almost pointless – the only thing that matters is action on climate change."
America’s missed climate targets cost global economy $1 trillion, Dublin-based think tank finds
“Someone, somewhere, at some time will eventually pay the price.”
NAACP reveals tactics fossil fuel industry uses to manipulate communities of color
The report describes at length the health and financial harms that coal, oil, and gas bring to the communities they cross, and how these harms are disproportionately impacting people of color.
New York bans single-use plastic bags
New York becomes the second state to ban single-use plastic bags starting in March 2020.
‘Huge victory for our oceans:’ Trump effort to open Arctic to oil and gas...
"Experts in environmental law estimate that the Trump administration has now lost about 40 environmental cases in federal courts."
Push to reverse obscure shipping law could flood Puerto Rico with fracked gas
As the island rebuilds after Hurricane Maria, a century-old federal shipping law known as the Jones Act stands in the way of the oil and gas industry flooding the island with liquefied natural gas, or LNG.