Climate denier Lamar Smith holds rare congressional hearing on geoengineering
“Geoengineering is not a silver bullet, and treating it as one could greatly increase already severe climate change risks.”
Facing their failure to meet 2020 biodiversity targets, world leaders pledge action & funds
Amid calls from the U.N. Chief to stop treating the earth ‘as if we have a spare one,’ French President Emmanuel Macron led world leaders in commitments to protect ecosystems at the One Planet Summit
BREAKING: Trump signs executive orders to advance Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines
Trump claims that pipelines will create more energy security for Americans, but will the oil even be used domestically?
Maryland bans fracking
“Maryland is taking a huge step forward, but communities are continuing to suffer as fracking and extreme extraction expands worldwide.”
Not extinct after all: First ‘widely accepted sighting’ of Ivory-billed Woodpecker since 1944
“Multiple lines of evidence indicate survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana.”
Biden admin set to proceed with largest offshore oil & gas lease sale in...
The administration says it was forced to go ahead with the sale by a court decision, while environmental activists argue it could have done more to fight back.
US Judge orders stretch of Enbridge Line 5 shut down on tribal land
"But for the theft of Indigenous lands," said environmental activist and attorney Steven Donziger, "this pipeline would not even exist."
Dominion buys pipeline support at Supreme Court through GOP Attorneys General
With a key Atlantic Coast Pipeline appeal before the Supreme Court, US Attorney General Barr and Republican state Attorneys General have intervened in Dominion’s favor – while sharing close financial ties to the utility.
US Interior Secretary provokes Trump administration’s climate related orders
“I believe we have a unique opportunity to make our communities more resilient to climate change and to help lead the transition to a clean energy economy.”
Sobering 2018 national climate change report is leaked to the NY Times
Government climate scientists take action.