Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Department of Interior awards grants to communities through National Park Service’s program 

The program provides matching grants, up to 50 percent of the total project costs, to "enable urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors."

House progressives, climate coalition demand end to ‘fossil fuel handouts’

Opposition to Build Back Better Act provisions that would benefit polluters comes amid reporting that Senate Democrats plan to delay a vote on the package until 2022.

5 surprising things that could be preventing your backyard from serving as a wildlife...

Prevent your backyard from being an “ecological trap” by taking these key actions to protect wildlife.
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‘A big deal’: Bill McKibben on Rutgers fossil fuel divestment & the future of...

Author, environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben says the Rutgers divestment decision is “a big deal,” especially as it happened at one of the oldest universities in the United States.

Understanding overlapping corporate disinformation campaigns is critical to telling the full story about science...

Monsanto’s campaign to target journalists and activists was ranked the second most neglected story of 2020 according to the nonprofit media watchdog.

Washington petrochemical plant subsidies would violate federal ‘double dipping’ rules say environmental groups

The Port of Kalama methanol plant, if built on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon, would expand North America’s capacity to export products produced by fracked shale gas wells.

Conservative party-linked Facebook page, Canada Proud, a major source of climate disinformation

Leading the charge is Canada Proud, a right-wing Facebook page with close ties to the Conservative Party, which made post after post in the early days of the invasion urging the country to export more hydrocarbons to Europe.

Another 333 minke whales killed by Japanese fleet

Conservation organizations are calling on international governments to do more to stop the slaughter of the whales.

15 lawmakers plotting to privatize America’s public lands

With the West already losing to development one football field's worth of natural areas every two and a half minutes, these shared lands are more important than ever.

Climate movement targets Wall Street to stop driving fossil fuel industry’s expansion

It's no secret that the driving force behind the fossil fuel industry's expansion is the financial industry. But the nation's leading climate...