Monday, April 29, 2024

France to ban sale of cars powered by gasoline and diesel

France intends to end oil and gas exploration in French territory, eliminate coal-fired power plants by 2022 and encourage homeowners to produce their own energy.

Trump’s Energy Team of Climate Change Deniers

Catanzaro's current role in heading up Trump's energy team is over a decade in the making, with a career track record soaked in oil and gas.

5 big Wins, 2 big losses on key eco-ballot initiatives

An energy and big business-backed state constitutional amendment passed in Colorado, while a controversial carbon tax initiative in Washington went down to defeat.

New study shows plastic pollution threatens human health on a global scale

“The heavy toxic burdens associated with plastic – at every stage of its life cycle – offers another convincing argument why reducing and not increasing production of plastics is the only way forward. Plastic is lethal, and this report shows us why.”

Trump’s Christmas gift to big oil: Killing hopes of electric car tax credit extension

While AEA is calling the defeat of the EV tax credit extension a “holiday reprieve for taxpayers,” the move is perhaps more accurately described as a holiday gift to the oil industry.

IOGCC Representatives Spout Climate Denial at ExxonMobil-Funded Meeting

IOGCC may be just as bad as ALEC, but has yet to come under fire for its relationship with Exxon.

On the ground in Standing Rock

The water protectors in North Dakota didn't just build a protest camp. They built a community.

Warming climate is the ‘decisive driver’ in spike of record-setting California wildfires

2018 brought several new records for disastrous and deadly wildfires in California.

Lawyer burns himself to death to protest environmental destruction

He "was all about justice, but he was also all about what it means to be human."
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Indigenous groups vow to keep resisting as construction is approved for Enbridge tar sands...

“Are willing to put our children’s futures on the line to allow through a Canadian corporation to do as it wishes and to suppress the rights of our citizens.”