Thursday, May 9, 2024

Canadian government declares oil trains safe and plans to get into the oil train...

Here's why that's bad news for the communities in both Canada and the U.S. where this influx of oil train traffic will pass.

Court allows Trump to bulldoze environmental laws for border wall

"Congress has ceded its authority to Trump, who has swept aside fundamental public safety and environmental laws to build walls that won't work."

Black residents of Cancer Alley sue local government for discrimination in siting chemical facilities

“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”

Must climate change dinosaurs go extinct before getting started on serious eco-energy reforms?

The entire resource/energy problem is as simple to understand as it is hard to resolve.

Global inequality is 25% higher than it would have been in a climate-stable world

As is becoming increasingly clear, there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to climate change or inequality.

The terrifying implications of India’s elections for people and the planet

The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.

Warming climate is the ‘decisive driver’ in spike of record-setting California wildfires

2018 brought several new records for disastrous and deadly wildfires in California.
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Climate change is impacting every aspect of modern life, but the press fails to...

July is slated to become the hottest month in recorded history, as extreme weather fueled by global warming wreaks havoc across the...

Looking backwards: 2020-1944

Perhaps you’ll recognize the reference in the title to this article to a novel published in 1888.  It was the third most...

Top Six Green Energy Good News Stories From the Paris COP21

There is some good news on the emissions front, and new renewable energy installations are key to it.