Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Environmental groups oppose Shell request to increase air pollution limits for Pennsylvania plastics factory

“[Particulate matter] is responsible for more deaths and sickness than any other air pollutant in the world.”

‘A pretty ugly history’: How Exxon exported climate denial to the Global South

With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Conservationists are convinced that the opening up of indigenous lands to economic exploitation would inevitably lead to extensive deforestation and to the contamination of Amazonian rivers.

Appeals court reverses decision stopping Bayou Bridge pipeline work through Cypress swamp

“We will continue fighting to hold this reckless company accountable for its weekly acts of water pollution and harm to communities.”

Trump appoints pair of climate science deniers to NOAA while climate-fueled fires and storms...

It is therefore worth taking a closer look at the backgrounds of these two individuals questioning mainstream climate science.

When can pipelines take private land? Jordan Cove LNG project a test for eminent...

“This is not for a school, it’s not for a hospital, it’s not for an interstate, all of which we acknowledge benefits a wide variety of U.S. citizens. The only people that are going to benefit from this are the people that are invested in fossil fuels.”

Native organizations fill gaps in federal support for tribal renewable energy, healing native communities

The IRA provides Tribes with renewable energy tax credits for the first time (covering up to 70 percent of project cost) and increases funding for Tribal energy loans from $2 to $20 billion!

Antarctic ice melt has tripled in five years

"A three-fold increase now puts Antarctica in the frame as one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise."

We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril

Kokia drynarioides is a small but significant flowering tree endemic to Hawaii’s dry forests. Native Hawaiians used its large, scarlet flowers to...

EPA head continues to defend Trump’s historic mistake

By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, Scott Pruitt and Donald Trump are turning their backs on American families, eating away at America's global leadership and standing alone on the wrong side of history.