Replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods could prevent 1.6 billion tons of...
“Moving the American appetite from our burger-heavy diet to plant-based eating is a powerful and necessary part of curbing the climate crisis.”
West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
Up and down the West Coast, the burgeoning biomass boom threatens to derail hard-won progress on climate, ecosystem protection and environmental justice.
The good news about Trump’s very bad environment speech
It’s hard to find the nuggets of good news in the media these days. Many people are so burnt out on the...
Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New data shows massive...
Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?
Tell Congress to pass a bold plan within the infrastructure bill that supports electric...
It's time Congress makes firm commitments and landmark policies to have pollution-free transportation nationwide.
Did DeSmog’s Coverage of Coal Baron Bob Murray v. Fracker Aubrey McClendon Lawsuit Lead...
DeSmogBlog has followed this case closely since Murray filed his initial complaint in August 2013, regularly checking the docket and saving copies of court documents sealed along the way. But is record sealing legal?
Maryland Passes a Bill to Save Its Bees
Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban a popular pesticide for consumer use.
California to build world’s largest bridge over a major freeway for wildlife
Hoping to prevent the extinction of mountain lions, coyotes, deer, lizards, snakes, and other species that require room to roam, Southern California...
World’s richest 10% responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990: Study
They discovered that emissions from the richest 10 percent of people in China and the United States alone each resulted in an increase of two to three times the heat extremes in vulnerable regions.
Biden drilling report blasted as ‘shocking capitulation to the needs of corporate polluters’
"The government's royalty rates and bonding requirements are far too low and lead to public money subsidizing Big Oil's profits while our federal lands and waters suffer egregious harm."