Friday, April 26, 2024

We don’t think of Californians as climate refugees yet, but we should

Texas. Florida. Puerto Rico. California. The growing climate disaster toll ought to raise questions about where humans can and should live.

Why Native American women are going after Europe’s banks to divest from Big Oil

“Indigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.”

Biggest oil spill since Deepwater Horizon is twice as bad as we thought

The flow has been contained, but no cause for the ruptured pipe has been determined.

GOP Senators, fueled by industry cash, propose bill to expedite small scale LNG exports

The Rubio-Cassidy bill also calls for small-scale LNG exports to be considered by default in the “public interest.”

Brutal outlook for healthy wild horses and burros: BLM calls for shooting 90,000

“A balance must be struck between ranching and mining interests and wild horses and other wildlife as part of a fair interpretation of BLM’s multiple-use mandate on the range.”

New EPA climate change website doesn’t mention ‘climate change’

"It is beyond comprehension that EPA would ever purposely limit and remove access to information that communities need to save lives and property."

Why is a dump for Hurricane Harvey debris next to an African American community?

“It is appalling what is going on in that community."

Former head of energy, environment at ALEC, Todd Wynn, hired by Trump Interior Department

Wynn's new job at Interior will parallel his past role at ALEC.

World’s first floating wind farm will power 20,000 homes

Scotland has officially switched on the Hywind Scotland, the world's first floating wind farm.

Fossil fuel misinformation helps quash community effort to ban fracking in Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown, Ohio, has been told it cannot place an anti-fracking initiative on local ballots, due in part to a misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry.