US Fish and Wildlife schedule dates to decide endangered species protections for animals, plants...
"We’re in an extinction crisis, and scientists are warning of the impending loss of more than a million species. We need a Fish and Wildlife Service that does its job and acts with urgency.”
Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill banning whale and dolphin captivity
"Today is a really good day for animals in Canada."
‘We will not stop’: First Nations land defenders take direct action against Trans Mountain...
"We have never provided and will never provide our collective free, prior, and informed consent—the minimal international standard—to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project."
The New Flint: Children Exposed To Lead And Arsenic In Soil For Years, Are...
It's Flint all over again, except instead of a water crisis, it's a land crisis.
Indigenous peoples reclaim the National Bison Range
“We are such a place-based people. To have this land back, to be in control of it, is a fresh, new hope.”
Pandemic lockdowns caused ‘just a tiny blip’ in climate-polluting emissions, WMO finds
The news comes as it's more critical than ever to seriously tackle rising global emissions.
Federal research has been stoking oil, gas interest in Bears Ears Monument for years
“Bears Ears could very well become another Standing Rock in both desecration and resistance."
Retirement fund for many California firefighters battling wildfires puts money in coal
By continuing to hold fossil fuel investments, the logic goes, CalPERS may be taking some of that money and using it to add fuel to the wildfires of tomorrow.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 3, 2018
7 hospitalized after pipeline explosion, Senate Democrats agree to major military spending, White House rolls back fuel economy standards, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 30
Vietnam demands compensation from Monsanto for victims of Agent Orange, California on brink of mandating 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Sanders vs. Amazon intensifies, and more.