Sunday, May 18, 2025

Study: Natural gas power plants emit up to 120 times more methane than previously...

Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide but hangs around the atmosphere for a shorter time.

First utility-scale project on tribal lands to power 100,000 homes

The key is making sure there is a welcoming policy environment for continued growth of large scale solar, with triggers that can help distributed solar take pressure off the grid.

Scientists sound the alarm: CO2 levels race past point of no return

Emissions from fossil-fuel consumption have remained at historically high levels since 2011 and are expected to spike.

Pruitt emails reveal communications with ALEC and Koch groups

After Pruitt became attorney general, he stayed engaged with ALEC on energy and environmental issues.

15 lawmakers plotting to privatize America’s public lands

With the West already losing to development one football field's worth of natural areas every two and a half minutes, these shared lands are more important than ever.

3 months and counting: Pipeline leaks natural gas into Alaska’s Cook Inlet

The 8-inch pipeline, owned and operated by Hilcorp Alaska, is leaking more than 210,000 cubic feet of gas per day.

Kenya joins growing fight against plastic pollution

Kenya's plastic bag ban, which begins in September, will require sweeping changes to business as usual.

Architect of federal fracking loophole may head Trump environmental council

The push for climate change’s non-inclusion in NEPA appraisals “puts our country, our communities, and our people at great risk.”

Protect the bats from lethal wind turbines

Please sign the petition to tell the AWEA to make these changes so that we can save 90 percent of the bats rather than just 30 percent.

Chevron pipeline spills 4,800 gallons of oil, killing wildlife

The cause of the pipeline failure is under investigation.