Dakota Access Pipeline builder ignored Obama admin request to halt construction
“This debacle also shows the need to make the Army Corps of Engineers’ permitting process much more transparent, with a full environmental review and thorough, participatory tribal consultation.”
UPS tests electric cycles for busy cities
The USPS bikes hold up to 400 pounds of packages and are designed for use in both urban areas and rural neighborhoods.
Increasing disasters are ‘setting humanity on a spiral of self-destruction,’ UN warns
“The financial system really needs to get ahead of this curve, because otherwise there’s a lot of built-up risk that isn’t being priced into how we make decisions.”
Unprecedented new map unveils illegal mining destroying Amazon
"The scope of illegal mining in the Amazon, especially in indigenous territories and protected natural areas, has grown exponentially in recent years, with the rise in the price of gold."
5 facts you probably didn’t know about plastic waste
Humans have created enough plastic since the second world war to coat the Earth entirely in clingfilm – no joke. It’s time people ditch their dependency on plastics.
EPA analysis finds 200 endangered species near extinction because of 3 widely used pesticides
The pesticides “jeopardize the continued existence of” more than 1 in 10 endangered fish, insects, crustaceans, plants, and birds across the United States.
On ‘front lines of climate change,’ Baltimore lawsuit aims to hold 26 fossil fuel...
"These oil and gas companies knew for decades that their products would harm communities like ours."
Trump races to weaken environmental and worker protections, and implement other last-minute policies, before...
The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a rule that could reintroduce firing squads and electrocutions to federal executions.
$1 million nurdle spill settlement shines light on plastic pollution during shipping
Small pellets, big problems.
Exclusive: Rhode Island governor nixed agency critiques of LNG facility, silencing health and justice...
“We’re going to keep fighting, we’re not going to allow this to be a sacrifice zone for people of color.”