Monday, May 6, 2024

EPA names PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances

"[The] EPA must urgently follow up this rule with strong science-based and equitable actions to regulate PFAS as a class."

Revealed: The climate-conflicted directors leading the world’s top banks

65% of directors from the banks analyzed had connections to polluting industries and obstructive lobby groups.

Study: Native Americans barely impacted landscape for 14,000 years. Europeans came and changed everything

“Our work should cause some New England conservationists to reconsider both their rationale and tools for land management.”

New BLM appointee brings conflicts of interest and plans to sell off public lands...

Control over nearly 250 million acres of public lands was placed Monday in the hands of a former Reagan administration official who...

‘A win for the planet!’: Dutch supreme court issues landmark ruling mandating climate action

The nonprofit that brought the case called it "a groundbreaking decision that confirms that individual governments must do their fair share to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

House passes resolution that reinstates EPA’s methane pollution safeguards

A new report by the UN Environment Program confirmed that cutting methane pollution from both new and existing oil and gas operations is vital in tackling the climate crisis.

Federal court throws out controversial pipeline permit: ‘Speak for the trees’ not for corporations

"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." 

Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic dismantling of the federal land agency

Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral companies.

Costa Rica’s progressive policies aim to make the country carbon-free by 2021

“We have the titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of fossil fuels in our economy to make way for the use of clean and renewable energies."