Environment

Utilizing the #KeepTheBan hashtag on Twitter, groups such as the Center for Biological Diversity and Food and Water Watch are pushing for citizens to call the White House and congressional members and tell them not to lift the ban.

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.

The USDA is facing lawsuits for shirking its responsibility to protect birds from animal welfare violations.

“This is a majority-Black island in a U.S. territory. It is located next to public housing. If this refinery were located most anywhere else in the country, it would have been shut down months ago.”

Trump’s sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe.

Waterville shows what could be if these ballot initiatives are allowed a vote: a genuine face-off between the oil and gas industry and local communities.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has sent a four-person team to investigate the incident.

While the west is experiencing a mega-drought, the lake is at its lowest water level since recording started in 1847.

“We need to look at the risks of not investing in resilience.”

Restore California will fund farmers to switch to regenerative agriculture practices.