US Justice Department tells Supreme Court to reject Big Oil petition in Colorado climate...
The Justice Department is siding with communities in Colorado and across the U.S. that are fighting to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate lies.
Legal experts define ecocide, take step toward international criminal law
The draft defines ecocide as, "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts."
All Forms of Life Are Sacred
Just because animals are cognitively different from us, why is it people's belief that they have lesser moral value? Using them is the ultimate problem—it does not matter how well we treat them.
Another bomb train accident highlights regulatory failures
“If the federal government won’t act to protect public safety and adopt a safer nationwide standard, we will adopt our own. There is just too much to lose — for people and our environment.”
A lawsuit has been filed against Keystone XL
“The Trump administration keeps trying to fast-track and rubber-stamp the boondoggle Keystone XL pipeline project, but they keep losing ‘bigly’ every time we take them to court.”
Navigating the energy transition: Renewables abound, but grid challenges loom
Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it.
Giant water battery cuts university’s energy costs by $100 million over next 25 years
“Universities have a very large energy footprint and we wanted to tackle that and reduce that expense.”
Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
If we do not rapidly, systematically and substantially reduce our consumption in several key areas and radically alter our parenting model, while resisting elite violence strategically on several fronts, homo sapiens will enter Earth’s fossil record within a few years.
Lobbying against key US climate regulation ‘cost society $60 billion,’ study finds
“Our new point is that if the very likelihood of having climate policy enacted in the first place may be jeopardized by political influences (via lobbying), why not try to use this revenue to neutralize some of the political opposition in a targeted way.”
The Supreme Court’s EPA decision could hamper regulator’s ability to protect the public
The agency will still be allowed to regulate many forms of air pollution, but would need explicit direction from Congress on how to tackle some of the worst aspects of climate change and other pressing issues.