LEGO announces plan to become more sustainable with first prototype brick made from recycled...
Over the past three years, the team of material scientists and engineers tested more than 250 variations of PET materials before coming up with the LEGO brick prototype that met the Danish company's safety, quality and play requirements.
From carpet to clean air: It’s time for California to stand up for environmental...
Our representatives should uplift our health and quality of life not in words, but with action.
Climate scientists attack Tony Abbott’s ‘misleading’ speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation
Abbott told the GWPF that rising carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning could be “beneficial.”
‘It’s a proud day’: Oregon landowners celebrate demise of LNG project, even as legal...
A coalition of Oregon landowners, environmental groups, and Native tribes fended off Jordan Cove for more than a decade. But the legal implications of the project’s demise outside of Oregon are unclear.
Goldman Sachs announces commitment to set 2030 emissions reduction targets
The commitment is to reduce the physical emissions intensity of its portfolios, and has yet to rule out support for companies expanding oil, gas and coal.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 13, 2018
Justice Department reopens the Emmett Tiller investigation, Trump's global chaos tour, Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018, and more.
Phthalate exposure linked to increased risk of childhood cancer, study finds
The data also shows a nearly three-fold higher rate of osteosarcoma (a bone cancer) and a two-fold higher rate of lymphoma (a blood cancer).
In ‘major win’ for clean air and public health, EPA reverses Pruitt’s ‘super-polluting’ truck...
The decision came after a federal appeals court sided with green groups that sought to block the "irresponsible and dangerous" policy.
Climate activists demand more from state lawmakers in wake of Supreme Court EPA ruling
With the federal government’s ability to tackle climate change curtailed by the Supreme Court, activists are pressing climate-friendly state lawmakers to step up.
EPA disbands panel that reviewed clean air standards, appoints new members to Clean Air...
"We're seeing EPA trying to cut science out of the process."