Trump admin is rushing to mine sacred tribal land in Arizona
“Our preservation laws are not set up to prevent this level of loss. It weighs heavily on me.”
‘Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction,’ warns UN chief
"Instead of hitting the brakes on the decarbonization of the global economy" amid Russia's war on Ukraine, "now is the time to put the pedal to the metal towards a renewable energy future," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
New report shows cancer organization shares lobbyists with fossil fuel companies
The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society, shares lobbyists with 21 fossil fuel companies across 10 states.
Calls to ‘stop building new oil pipelines’ grow as data shows severity of Keystone...
"Pipelines also often cross our nation's wetlands—a risk that could be greatly magnified if the Supreme Court strips away their federal protections."
Climate change could turn a carbon sink into a carbon bomb
There is some debate as to whether this thawing of permafrost in peatland ecosystems is “a long freight train moving slowly as it unloads its greenhouse gases" or a carbon bomb about to blow as the train careens off the tracks.
Groups challenge fracking plan for Ohio’s only national forest
The Wayne is Ohio's only national forest and it belongs to the people and should be preserved for generations to come.
EPA chief met with Dow Chemical CEO before deciding not to ban toxic pesticide
This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards
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.
Victory for activists as DNC considers hosting a climate-specific debate
Youth and climate activists had relentlessly expressed their desire for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to host a climate change presidential debate....
As Amazon rainforest burns, Brazil’s environment minister to meet US group that denies climate...
A Greenpeace Brazil campaingner says the Bolsonaro government "makes efforts to deny the problems, not to face them."