Nearly 29,000 tons of COVID plastic now floats in the oceans, study finds
A new study calculates for the first time how much of that waste is ending up in the oceans and what it is doing once it gets there.
New study shows fracking harms kids’ brains
This is the first study to focus on the UOG industry's effects on infants and children, particularly those that live near fracking sites.
Spokane climate activists sue U.S. government for constitutional violations
These activists are fighting for their “right to a healthy climate” and to ban fossil fuel trains as a violation of that right.
Climate activists demand more from state lawmakers in wake of Supreme Court EPA ruling
With the federal government’s ability to tackle climate change curtailed by the Supreme Court, activists are pressing climate-friendly state lawmakers to step up.
These kids will see Trump in court
Twenty-one kids and climate scientist James Hansen were suing the Obama administration to take more aggressive action on climate. Now, the climate-change-denying 45th president has inherited the case.
‘Energy policy advocates’ and the fossil fuel boosters attacking legal efforts to hold climate...
“The coal industry is the first to fall, and it’s falling hard. But they’re fighting much harder in the face of that. They’re fighting like a trapped raccoon in the corner.”
America’s big bet on selling fracked gas to China and the world
A lot of evidence points to these being bad bets — just like coal.
“Our demands remain the same”: A conversation with Extinction Rebellion UK’s national spokesperson, Zion...
Starting on Friday, September 20th and scheduled to officially end on the 27th, the global climate strike movement started by Greta Thunberg has...
Goldman Sachs becomes first major American bank to prohibit Arctic oil financing
“Goldman Sachs is right to recognize that destroying the Arctic Refuge would be bad business. We hope other American banks will follow their lead.”
4 major environmental treaties the US never ratified—but should
“The United States has disproportionate power in global governance. Or it used to. It has to regain the credibility and the legitimacy that it lost.”