Saturday, August 2, 2025

US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal

If policymakers can envision a contemporary version of ideas in the original New Deal, a climate-friendly and socially just American agriculture is within reach.

US Bank declares end to oil and gas pipeline loans – then quietly joins...

Environmentalists hoped that this was a chance for U.S. Bank to end its dealings with Energy Transfer Partners. It looks like this isn’t the case.

Trump threatens to veto first-ever congressional action on “forever chemicals”

A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for nearly 70 years without our knowledge...

Field test of GMO algae sparks outrage

Billions of taxpayer dollars have been invested in developing algae biofuels that have yet to be commercially viable.

‘Privatize the profit, socialize the mess’: Abandoned fracking wells left spewing climate-killing methane nationwide

“Are we going to be responsible for the mess that these companies leave behind?”

Jeff Sessions sets back the clock

How low can he go? And how far back can this Attorney General take us?

UK retailers ban glitter from store brand products this holiday season

As the movement against glitter brings awareness about microplastics, Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis' store brand holiday products will be glitter-free for 2020.

Governments are sending oil executives to COP26 despite climate pledges. Here’s a look at...

A DeSmog analysis found that the delegations from multiple countries are heavily drawn from their oil ministries and even large oil companies. Shell and other publicly traded oil giants are also attending the climate proceedings under the cover of trade groups.

Trump admin ordered ‘climate censorship’ in plans to lease Texas public lands for fossil...

"The bigger concern here is the issue of meddling and censorship. If it happens at this stage, it could certainly happen later in the EIS process. So we are concerned about the future of this EIS."

Trump and Orbán allies gather at anti-green event hosted by Project 2025 group

The two-day event on Sept. 17 and 18, co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, played host to high-ranking members of Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government, executives from anti-green think tanks, and UK politicians.