Monday, August 18, 2025

Biden signs ADVANCE Act to boost nuclear power amid controversy over safety and regulation

President Biden’s signing of the ADVANCE Act aims to accelerate nuclear power development for clean energy and jobs, but critics warn of safety and regulatory issues.

From Europe to China to India, uncertainty and fear over Trump’s climate rollback

The E.U., China and other leading economies must share the brunt of the responsibility to tackle climate change.

After ‘mind-blowing’ September, 2023 set to be hottest tear on record: EU Climate Agency

The European climate agency said Thursday that last month was the warmest September on record globally and "the most anomalous warm month of any year" in its dataset going back to 1940.

Is the U.S. Fracking boom based on fraud?

Will the biggest innovation of the fracking revolution be making financial fraud a laughing matter?

Maine becomes ninth state to sue Big Oil for climate deception

The state will take fossil fuel companies including Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil to court for climate lies and damages.

Indian Point Accident

A recent fire at Indian Point Nuclear Plant in New York is prompting renewed calls to close the plant. Does the federal government have a historic, reckless and scandalous weakness when it comes to the nuclear power plant?

The pipeline protest before Standing Rock

Last year’s water protectors garnered worldwide attention, but several pipeline fights – such as the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline victory – got little public notice.

Other casualties of Putin’s war in Ukraine: Russia’s climate goals and science

Environmental concerns are at risk of being laid aside during wartime.

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.

Climate change forces 20 million people to flee each year, Oxfam finds

At the U.N. climate talks in Madrid, environmental and development groups are pushing to establish a fund to help countries already reeling from climate change.