Environment

The fracking boom in Texas and New Mexico and subsequent export boom is a shining example – illuminated by the flares of fracked gas – of exactly what not to be doing.

The UK government is set to ban additional single-use plastic items like plates and cutlery in England, after banning straws, stirrers and cotton swabs there in 2020.

North Carolina, New Jersey and New Mexico petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating PFAS “forever chemical” air emissions.

The two-day event on Sept. 17 and 18, co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, played host to high-ranking members of Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government, executives from anti-green think tanks, and UK politicians. 

Complacency, apathy and hypocrisy coalesce to form the most noxious causes of climate change and environmental vandalism.

The U.S.-Japan Competitiveness and Resilience Partnership will make “common and concrete efforts to decarbonize operations.”

“The fossil fuel industry wants us to believe its financial woes are just the result of COVID-19, but that’s a lie — these problems have been mounting for years as oil companies and banks made ever-riskier bets on extraction projects hurting communities and wrecking the climate.”

Providing diverse, healthy habitat will meet a long-neglected need for the thousands of native pollinators in the country.

For WHO and its partners, this series of measures to achieve a reduction of pollutants could significantly reduce the number of annual deaths from air pollution.

If deforestation emissions were represented as a country, they’d be the fourth biggest emitter behind China, the U.S. and India.