Saturday, March 14, 2026

The plastics industry’s wish list for a second Trump administration

Endorsed by petrochemical lobbyists, the legislation is being criticized by environmentalists who are calling it the industry’s own Project 2025.

Outrage as Biden Administration recommends major Alaska oil project

"The project is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy,” but that “it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb."

Homeland Security listed these climate activists as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers

"I think there is a strategy that right-wing forces are using to criminalize dissent. This bulletin shows that dirty hand."

80 critically endangered Australian frogs released to the wild after surviving disease and bushfire...

“It’s one of the most threatened frog species in Australia and it’s holding on, just clinging on, thanks to these amazing conservation works.”

Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s vital signs are...

A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.

Supreme Court will hear Exxon’s effort to crush climate lawsuits

Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.

Top ranking Michigan official ordered to go to trial over Flint water crisis

Nick Lyon will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak reportedly killed 12 and sickened close to 90 people in 2014 and 2015.

Appeals Court Lifts Injunction Preventing Dakota Access Pipeline Construction

However, construction cannot resume immediately, since three federal agencies have ordered a halt on any development of the pipeline on federal lands.

Beyond Harvey and Irma

Militarizing Homeland Security in the climate-change era.

‘Strong hearts to the front!’: Indigenous water protectors take direct action against Minnesota tar...

"Clean water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential to our survival... [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our well-being."