Friday, April 19, 2024

It’s Official: This Winter Was America’s Warmest on Record

Every state in the lower 48 saw temperatures at least 1.7 F above average.

Chile Producing So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving Electricity Away for Free

With so much clean power available, the price of solar has cost absolutely nothing for certain regions in recent months.

Weeks Before Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Intensified, Big Oil Pushed for Expedited Permitting

Using NWP 12 to permit major pipeline projects in a quiet and less transparent manner made its debut in the Obama White House.

Critics: Trump EPA’s formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human health indication of...

"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."

From Flint To Standing Rock To Upstate NY, Organizing To Save Our Water

We cannot sacrifice the planet for profits.

Court requires EPA to protect communities against worst-case chemical spills

“It is way beyond time for EPA to exercise the moral and political courage to protect these overburdened communities from the daily assaults on their health and quality of life.”

How COVID-19 took hold and why we must end the wildlife trade

Here’s what we can do to make sure the critical mistakes made after the SARS outbreak won’t be made again.

Trump can’t hold back the tide of climate action

Market forces, state and local action, and strong social movements could blunt the impacts of a denialist White House.

Standing strong as a rock

Stand with Standing Rock. December is Global Month of #NoDAPL Action.

2 hurricanes could strike US on the same day for the first time in...

The current projections have both storms passing through the Gulf of Mexico and barreling into the coast at the same time on Wednesday morning.