Environment

The trial in tiny Cavalier, North Dakota, in remote Pembina County, was heartbreaking.

The protest came at the end of a three-day youth climate conference, ahead of the United Nations’ COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature.

Here’s what Friends of the Earth Netherlands’ latest legal action could mean for global banks financing major polluters.

After former BNSF locomotive engineer, Bryan Thompson, suffered injuries from an oil-by-rail train the company is arguing that some federal laws protect them from paying. Are U.S. laws and policies structured to favor the powerful rail industry over people?

The next president of the European Commission will likely be Bas Eickhout of the Dutch Green Party.

“We are at a point now where we are peaking every day as we try to battle this crisis, and I think any of the funds that we use need to be addressed to help us reduce the spread of this virus to help the lives and livelihoods of thousands of North Dakotans.”

“This is reliable, clean, renewable energy that can help support our country as we go on and provide a good future for our kids.”

The most important thing President Obama did for the environment was not to block Keystone XL, but to throw billions in research and development money at solar panel research for a sweltering humankind.

The government of Justin Trudeau continues to spend massive quantities of public money supporting the primary cause of climate change.