Monday, July 6, 2026

Will Obama’s offshore drilling ban be Trumped?

What can a new president and a new congress do?

Biggest polluters linked to worsening wildfires in Western US and Canada

Emissions from these top fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers could also be linked to about 50% of increasing drought and high fire-risk conditions in the same area since 1901.

California Gov. Newsom proposes windfall profits tax on Big Oil

Calls for windfall profits taxes have increased globally in recent weeks

Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden

With the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines threatening Indigenous land, youth from the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes ran 2,000 miles to deliver a powerful message to the new administration.

WE are our weather

‘We are what we think’ especially regarding weather. The more the majority of us think negatively, the more we experience terrible weather patterns.

Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires

Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires, but science doesn’t support that.

A death in Louisiana’s cancer alley reinforces a small town’s fears of industry impacts

Helping the residents of St. James relocate seems more feasible than assuring them that the air they are breathing is clean.

US signals new support for global plastics reduction, reports say

Previously, the U.S. had held the stance of allowing individual UN member states to make their own decisions on plastic production.

EPA chief met with Dow Chemical CEO before deciding not to ban toxic pesticide

This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards

Fracking dumps millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into Gulf of Mexico

“Offshore fracking threatens Gulf communities and wildlife far more than our government has acknowledged.”