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.
Water protectors take action to keep pipeline out of black and indigenous communities
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
Climate defenders mobilizing for 3rd People’s Climate March
"We're making sure that politicians see what diverse climate leadership must look like, to successfully serve the entire population of people who are actually affected by climate change."
Scientists are developing greener plastics – the bigger challenge is moving them from lab...
Without supportive government policies, innovative plastic alternatives will have trouble crossing the so-called “valley of death” from the lab to the market.
Monsanto’s loss is our gain – let’s make the most of it
Friday’s verdict isn’t just an indictment of Monsanto and Bayer. It’s also a scathing indictment of regulatory agencies in countries around the world, and especially of the agencies here in the U.S.
Population and the Environment
Today we are pressing against the absolute limits of the earth’s carrying capacity.
France: Non-recycled plastic will cost 10 percent more
"Recycling is necessary but not sufficient. We absolutely must cut off the flow and have more stringent measures against over-packaging and disposable objects."
Interior Sec. Zinke blames ‘radical environmentalists,’ not climate change, as 100+ wildfires rage
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wrote an op-ed last week in USA Today about forest management on public lands that blamed “radical environmentalists” for the fires.
Want to create jobs? Reduce fossil fuel use
Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels – and at a faster rate and lower cost.
Bureau of Land Management proposes fracking on 1.6 million acres of federal land in...
"...there's really no question that more fracking would be terrible for California."