Friday, May 17, 2024

Trump’s offshore drilling plan puts 68 national parks at risk

All of these parks would be in danger if Trump and Zinke's drilling proposal goes ahead.

Plastic killed most sperm whales found dead in Greek waters since 2001

"The evidence is starting to mount rapidly that we just cannot throw away plastic as we have been."

Trump administration to auction off public land in Northern Arizona to dangerous fracking

"This is Trump's energy dominance policy at work, where nothing matters except fossil-fuel interests."

EPA guard shoves reporter, multiple news outlets blocked from water pollution event

"Scott Pruitt is more worried about journalists than poisoning millions of Americans."

Vancouver becomes first city in world to approve zero waste strategic plan

"It's a coastal city, with the plastic items having a significant impact on the environment, we feel it's important to take action."

What 30 years of documents show Shell knew about climate science

Despite such fence-sitting over the science, the company knows action is necessary, which makes Shell's continued huge investments in fossil fuels for the next two decades all the more intriguing.

We just experienced 400 straight months of unusual warmth

"We live in and share a world that is unequivocally, appreciably and consequentially warmer than just a few decades ago, and our world continues to warm."

Pipeline exec. refers to activists opposing construction near bald eagle nest as ‘awful soulless...

The backdrop to this tension is Millennium’s impending drilling on a crossing of the Neversink River, less than a mile from a bald eagle’s nest, as part of its Eastern System Upgrade project.

1,400 tons of contaminated soil hauled from Montana reservation oil spill site

Cleanup is still ongoing. So far, more than 50 large dump trucks full of soil have been removed with more to come.