Environmental leaders from 185 countries launch biodiversity protection fund
“As we confront the critical challenge of halting and reversing biodiversity loss around the world, working together has never been more important."
‘Failure of climate leadership’: House Dems’ tax plan leaves oil subsidies in place
“Omitting provisions to end fossil fuel subsidies—some of which have been in place for over 100 years—is inexcusable.”
High amounts of a toxic forever chemical found in bloodstreams of West Virginia county...
The report found the chemical, which is used in firefighting foam, in the blood of residents in a community located near an Air National Guard base.
The world’s worst crisis
This is one of Africa’s largest displacement crises and the world cannot afford to brush it under the carpet.
Japan to release Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
"The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive wastes."
Fossil fuel interests ‘coached’ conservatives to reject climate science in US and Australia, study...
“I think it’s all about vested interests.”
New EPA climate change website doesn’t mention ‘climate change’
"It is beyond comprehension that EPA would ever purposely limit and remove access to information that communities need to save lives and property."
Coastal flooding trend to continue as climate crisis escalates
"America's coastal communities and their economies are suffering from the effects of high tide flooding, and it's only going to increase in the future."
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Nebraska farmers return land to Native American tribe, Parkland students join Chicagoans to march against gun violence, audio recordings of children separated from their parents at the border, and more.
Oil industry front group launches latest attack on electric vehicle tax credit in Senate...
The oil and gas industry uses groups like AEA to advocate for its interests, and the incumbent industry that fuels conventional vehicles would benefit from slowing the transition to electric vehicles.