Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Pushing Carbon Tax and Fracking Ban, Sanders Lays Down Gauntlet on Climate

"I hope that Secretary Clinton would join me if we are serious about climate change, about imposing a tax on carbon on the fossil fuel industry and making massive investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And by the way... I hope you’ll join me in ending fracking in the United States of America."

Williams pipeline support highlights environmental defense fund’s long, cozy relationship with fracking pseudoscience

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental group with close ties to the corporate community, has taken a friendly approach to the...

The Trump administration is cutting back protection for migratory birds

Birds are a shared resource among nations. Where governments have acted, they have successfully protected migratory birds and the habitat they depend on.

$1 trillion in oil and gas pipelines worldwide could become stranded assets, new report...

The pipeline industry faces growing questions about whether it’s wise to build a massive network of pipelines that could become obsolete well within their projected 50-year-plus lifespans.

Koalas face extinction in next 30 years without urgent intervention, report warns

"With the trees dying and the streams drying there is a recipe for disaster. Koalas are really on the brink of not surviving.”

How Exxon is using an unusual law to intimidate critics over its climate denial

Exxon has "a track record of promoting half truths, misrepresentations and in some cases outright lies."

US solar energy production at a high, new report

This past quarter solar energy accounted for 64 percent of all new electricity capacity added to the U.S. grid.

Pruitt’s plan to debate climate science paused as science confirms human link to extreme...

“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic; it affects the rest of the planet.”

Focusing on cutting emissions alone won’t halt environmental decline, we must consume less

There is no free lunch when it comes to halting climate and environmental breakdown.

One family’s bold stand to block construction of a new pipeline

The family is asking for supporters to join them and plan to continue their campaign against the pipeline’s construction regardless of the court’s decision.