Price spikes puncture fracking’s promise to keep natural gas prices low
After a decade spent stoking demand for “abundant” natural gas, the U.S. now sits more exposed than ever to the fossil fuel’s wild price swings. Oil and gas advocates want you to blame wind and solar energy.
Ohio sues pipeline companies over pollution, residential construction
Rover Pipeline has racked up more "noncompliance incidents" than any other interstate gas pipeline.
Scientific studies conclude neonicotinoids damage bee populations
What if honeybee health was greatly affected by commonly used pesticides, causing colonies to die en masse?
Lawyer burns himself to death to protest environmental destruction
He "was all about justice, but he was also all about what it means to be human."
The dairy industry is determined to pour itself down our throats
This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of theIndependent Media Institute.
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Why the chemical industry is an overlooked climate foe—and what to do about it
The industry essentially has a free pass to continue business as usual—it just keeps on keepin’ on, with little accountability.
Antarctic ice melt has tripled in five years
"A three-fold increase now puts Antarctica in the frame as one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise."
Court approves surrey oil development but campaigners hail ‘important legal victory’
The decision of one Appeal Court judge left hope that future projects could be required to consider emissions produced when fossil fuels are burned, which dwarf those caused by the extraction process.
New data reveals annual increase in US trophy trade trends between 2016 and 2020
“The vast volume of hunting trophies pouring into the United States represents a massive exploitation of wildlife during a global extinction crisis.”
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Farmers need a $12 billion bailout to offset Trump's tariffs, Ivanka Trump dumps fashion brand, new emails show the lies of Sarah Sanders, and more.