Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Portland to Be Home to World’s First Vegan Supermarket Chain

Veganz is the world's first all-vegan supermarket chain. By the end of 2016 they will have 14 stores open around the world.

Trump’s energy pick weaponizes global poverty to block climate action

Chris Wright has taken a different tack on climate—less outrageous, but no less dangerous.

European Environment Committee Votes Against Glyphosate Renewal

"So long as serious concerns remain about the carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties of the herbicide glyphosate, the EU Commission should not renew its authorization."

What’s the point of subsidizing fossil fuels?

The industry fights to keep going and not to have to bear the cost itself of the environmental harm which it causes.

Journalism and the First Amendment on trial at Standing Rock

Reporter Jenni Monet has been charged with criminal trespassing and rioting, but the bigger story is about the failure of journalism institutions to rally.

‘Horific’: Two-thirds of Great Barrier Reef damaged in ‘unprecedented’ bleaching

Combating global warming is really the only way to help protect the rest of this coral.

Green Energy Is Surging and You’ll Never Guess Why

Many countries around the world have adopted wind and solar power for their electricity needs displacing hydrocarbons at a fast rate. Juan Cole highlights the stories illustrating the surge.

Trump nominates climate change denier to head NASA

Bridenstine would be “devastating for the space program.”

PennEast Pipeline cancelation could signal ‘end of an era’ for unnecessary fossil fuel projects

The pipeline would have crossed more than 88 waterways, 44 wetlands, 30 parks, and 33 conservation easements. Experts say the cancelation demonstrates that federal regulators must stop approving gas pipelines that fail to show they are needed in the first place.

‘Welcome progress’: 20+ nations vow to end funding for overseas fossil fuel projects

“This public money needs to be urgently redirected into a just energy transition.”