Environment

How to be a climate ally where you are.

Researchers found that people don't have to be right next to oil and gas fields to experience respiratory distress from flaring.

“ExxonMobil’s advertising and marketing mislead the public by presenting ExxonMobil’s clean energy activities as a significant proportion of its overall business.”

The law, which will enter into force Jan. 1, prohibits restaurants from providing straws unless a customer requests one. It covers only sit-down eateries, not fast food restaurants, delis or coffee shops.

“The coal industry is the first to fall, and it’s falling hard. But they’re fighting much harder in the face of that. They’re fighting like a trapped raccoon in the corner.”

Electric school buses operating in the U.S. rose from 598 in 2022 to 1,285 in June 2023.

Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.

“If global warming reaches 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as has been predicted, drought losses could be five times higher than they are today, with the largest increase in drought losses projected in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic regions of Europe.”

Not everyone is struggling. In fact, some actually benefit economically from these extreme weather events.

Roughly two dozen of of the 89 comments were directly copy-pasted from either industry itself or else pro-industry materials written by the DOE or Congress.