Politicians try to rally support for coal despite economics and Biden presidential win
"I want to make sure that we conservatives keep on fighting to make sure we don't have a Green New Deal, we don't get rid of gas and coal and oil, that we don't have a Medicare For All plan ..."
Rising temperatures linked to kidney disease
While global warming impacts our world and our lives in many obvious ways, a new study links rising temperatures with renal diseases,...
EPA thumbs nose at court order, says farmers can still use illegal dicamba herbicides
The move by the EPA amounts to a generous gift to BASF, Bayer and Corteva Agrisciences whose dicamba herbicides were deemed by the court to have been approved by the EPA illegally.
‘Modern day slavery’: Prisoner firefighters risking their lives in California battling wildfires an example...
“California fights fires with slave labor.”
AI energy demand drives Google’s emissions up 48% in five years
The report said its 2023 emissions had reached 14.3 metric tons.
“Shut down those tanks”: anger grows in Hawaii after U.S. Navy fuel site contaminates...
“The Navy assured us and promised our state Water Resource Management Commission that this would never happen, and yet here we are.”
Trump delays Paris climate agreement
During his campaigning, Trump had assured supporters he would rip up the agreement if elected.
Oceans in peril as governments stall on promises ahead of UN summit in Nice
With coral bleaching, illegal fishing, and fossil fuel expansion threatening marine ecosystems, global leaders gather in France amid mounting criticism over broken pledges and underfunded protections.
Youth demand action on nature, following IUCN’s first-ever global youth summit
“So we linked our demands to our own actions through our ‘Your Promise, Our Future’ campaign and are showing world leaders what we are doing for the world and then asking them what they are going to do for us and our future.”
Trump admin. pushes more ‘clean coal’ spending as Justice Department investigates failed ‘clean coal’...
Other environmental organizations warn that continued funding for carbon capture not only offers false hope that coal can be “clean,” but it also undermines progress toward more realistic goals.