Environment

Will the Trump administration with its call to “drill baby drill” listen?

“As long as Big Oil’s climate lies, both past and present, remain unchallenged by the DOJ, protecting the American public from the ravages of climate change will remain that much more difficult.”

The findings are a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration’s insistence that environmental regulations hurt jobs and hinder economic growth.

A new study calculates for the first time how much of that waste is ending up in the oceans and what it is doing once it gets there.

"This milestone is a victory for everyone who has been forced to breathe polluted air or drink unclean water because they lived near a dirty power plant."

For people living in these areas, that means noise, pollution and other stressors that can harm physical and mental health.

Coal companies and Big Oil like ExxonMobil and all those fracking companies are thus killing off a million Americans every five years.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city of Omaha have spent decades trying to clean it up.

With a surge in oil prices since Russia invaded Ukraine, Shell is said to still be invested in the controversial oilfield project.

The Menominee tribe of Wisconsin has sustainably harvested its woods for nearly 170 years, providing a model for foresters worldwide. Amid climate change and other threats to the forest, the tribe continues to follow a traditional code: Let the healthy trees keep growing.