Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
The fossil fuel industry is lining up behind far-right authoritarians
As climate change intensifies and countries turn to clean energies, Big Oil will take increasingly desperate measures to survive.
Extreme weather events are the new frontline of online climate denial—report
Analyzing Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube, it found that three quarters of the most popular misleading posts focused on extreme weather events.
The oil industry says it might support a carbon tax—here’s why that could be...
An industry calling for a tax on the use of its products sounds as bizarre as “man bites dog.” Yet, there’s a reason for the oil industry to consider that shift.
2015 Was the World’s Warmest Year—and 2016 Might Be Even Hotter
Scientists say the record-breaking high temperatures are a clear sign that climate change is accelerating.
Oil industry plans to keep workers safe—by firing them and having robots do their...
Industry isn’t safe and worker safety still isn’t a priority.
Ice shelf holding Pine Island Glacier could collapse within a decade
“The recent changes in speed are not due to melt-driven thinning; instead they’re due to the loss of the outer part of the ice shelf.”
Get ready for unnatural disasters this hurricane season
Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people...
States sue Trump EPA for suspending environmental regulations during pandemic
Polluters are allowed, at their sole discretion, to stop monitoring and reporting air emissions and water pollution levels during the outbreak.
Cultural values on Indigenous lands help forests thrive at nearly twice the rate of...
The findings challenge a longstanding assumption about conservation: that in order to protect biodiversity, people must be kept out.