How One West Virginia Supreme Court justice gave natural gas a big victory and...
Justice Beth Walker voted to reopen an already decided case around the time her husband owned stock in a variety of energy companies. And that’s not even why she’s been impeached.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
News study warns fracking is destroying US water supply
"The water footprint from fracking is only set to go up, the study informed, which raises "concerns about its sustainability, particularly in arid or semi-arid regions in western states, or other areas where groundwater supplies are stressed.”
Study: Children have better nutrition when they live near forests
The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements in people's diets. We show that forests cause these improvements."
Watch what Bill McKibben calls ‘one of the best and most straightforward videos about...
With the last five years the hottest since records began, Senator Bernie Sanders says that "What Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry are doing is criminal."
Climate change, extreme weather, destructive lifestyles
If we continue in the selfish, greedy, divisive ways of the past, the weather patterns will become more extreme and unpredictable, the air and waterways will become more toxic, loss of life will increase and the associated environmental ills will deepen.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 17, 2018
Words from the Unite the Right organizer, Trump's military parade is costing millions, Glyphosate found in popular children's foods, and more.
Another set back for TransCanada: Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska to go through ‘robust...
Since the pipeline will now follow an alternative route and not its original route, Morris wrote the government "cannot escape their responsibility."
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 16, 2018
Intellectually bankrupt GOP, California cities pledge to oppose offshore drilling, White House revokes security clearance of ex-CIA director, and more.
Fracking wastewater spikes 1,440 percent in half decade, adding to dry regions’ water woes
The industry’s demand for water during fracking is a growing concern.