Thursday, July 10, 2025

Fracking in 2018: Another year of pretending to make money

Instead, the fracking industry has helped set new records for U.S. oil production while continuing to lose huge amounts of money – and that was before the recent crash in oil prices.
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Beloved bear that recovered from massive wildfire burns found shot dead

"We will remember Cinder for the gentle, calm bear she was and for the pain and suffering and inspiration she became to so many humans."

Ten feelgood environment stories you may have missed in 2018

Here are ten upbeat environmental stories from this year that prove it’s not all doom and gloom.

A Green New Deal must be 100 percent just

A 100% Just Green New Deal doesn’t just offer a blanket promise of good green jobs and training for everyone, it will ensure that jobs training programs and investments in job creation are targeted and available first to the communities that need them most.

If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the...

In other words, if someone could collect and recycle all the unrecycled plastic on earth, this person would be richer than any individual on the planet.

Can an unequal earth beat climate change?

“Addressing climate change effectively and justly requires us to transform the unjust social and economic systems that gave us climate change in the first place.”

New data shows many Americans believe in human causes climate change, yet a staggering...

The poll, which was conducted between Nov. 29 and Dec. 10, came just after the U.S. government published a critical climate report last month with warnings of human-caused global warming having major consequences on the livelihoods of Americans.

Federal court throws out controversial pipeline permit: ‘Speak for the trees’ not for corporations

"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." 

Making Trump and other climate criminals pay

The sad truth is it may not be possible to punish all the climate criminals in Congress with one-way rides on icebergs.