Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Trump’s EPA pick rouses suspicions over ties to Koch Brothers

Trump's appointment of Pruitt was met with unprecedented criticism by environmental and health organizations nationwide, being described as a "puppet" of the fossil fuel industry.

Get the fossil fuels out of climate policymaking

Take action today and sign the petition to create a "precedent-setting treaty mechanism" to get a behemoth industry out of the way. Help us save the planet!

The plant-based solution to hunger

Poverty, malnutrition, and hunger are a result of politics, not scarcity.

10 most important environmental stories of 2016

No matter how much ink and airtime they earned, all of these stories revealed some larger trend about the state of the environment and environmental advocacy.

Standing Rock prepared us for Trump’s billionaires and oil giants

Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil uber alles mentality of the Trump administration.
Construction along the Keystone XL pipeline.

BP pipeline ruptures into CO river

The county where this spill took place has experienced 19 reported spills in 2016, 12 of those incidents were BP.

Online calculator cuts farms’ greenhouse emissions

An internet tool is now available which helps to quantify and control farms’ greenhouse emissions released during the crop production cycle.

2016: The year solar panels became cheaper than fossil fuels

The U.S. added about 125 solar panels every minute in 2016. This is double the pace of 2015.

2016: A year in photos, from climate change devastation to the power of protests

The year ended with the election of a president and vice president who don't embrace the scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.

Arctic waters have been rescued from drilling, but what about the land?

Time is running out for Obama to say no to Big Oil and permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – and the people who depend on it.