End whaling in Japan
Japan is planning to resume their whaling practices, something the International Court of Justice ruled as illegal last year. Sign the petition to urge President Obama to stop them.
7 key environmental amendments to watch
As debate continues on the spending bill, dozens of environmental amendments could receive votes. Here are some to watch:
Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law that ignores landowners’ property rights, Indigenous sovereignty in flawed...
Despite the flawed state decision, three federal lawsuit challenges to pipeline project continue to proceed.
West Virginia’s natural gas industry keeps pushing to whittle away payments to residents
Companies are deducting “post-production” costs or creating shell companies to reduce royalty payments. The firms say they have done nothing wrong.
After a decade of fracking, billions of dollars lost and a climate in crisis
As the 2020s begin, climate scientists and world experts are warning that—if there ever had been—now, there's no time to spare.
California governor signs order to ban sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035
“The Governor’s Executive Order is a meaningful step in addressing the climate crisis and protecting the health of Californians.”
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 4, 2018
New ICE policy gives immigrant families a cruel choice, two more government agencies ax climate change from their websites, a majority of Americans want Citizens United overturned, and more.
People of color and low income communities are more exposed to pesticides in the...
“For too long communities of color have served as literal dumping grounds for many of our nation’s most dangerous toxic chemicals, including pesticides."
Trump trifecta abuses science, world diplomacy and Mother Nature
Rejecting the Paris accord is the culmination of Trump’s (literally) scorched earth presidency: destroy willy nilly on the irrational assumption what comes next must be better.
Former BP scientist Steve Koonin claims climate journalists are spreading ‘hysteria’
Koonin argued that mainstream climate reporters shouldn’t be linking unprecedented wildfires and hurricanes to climate change.