Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Humanity’s shrinking window: Reversing the Amazon’s slide toward the tipping point

A closer look at the Amazon’s declining health and its global implications.

One rural county’s battle to stop a pipeline from slicing through Pennsylvania

Lancaster County, Penn. is rising up against the $3 billion Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.

Norvergence: Psychosocial and mental health impacts of climate change

“In the tech-saturated world, climate change is the biggest global threat (both physically and mentally).” Most articles or blog...

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, July 26, 2018

Federal lawsuit against President Trump's business interests allowed to proceed, deadly wildfires rage around the world, Betsy Devos is hurting students again, and more.

Three Massive Mergers—Millions for One Bank and a Disaster for Food, Water, and Climate

In addition to advising on all three mega-mergers, Credit Suisse is playing a big role behind the scenes of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Trump administration to allow logging in pristine national forest

The roughly 9 million acres that the administration wants to open up now have been protected since the 2001 by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, or Roadless Rule.
Construction along the Keystone XL pipeline.

Nebraska approves Keystone XL pipeline

Nebraska law barred regulators from considering spills or pipeline safety in its decision-making process, because who cares about the environment anyways, right?

The first gas utility sued for climate deception

The company has portrayed gas as “safe, clean, and environmentally friendly,” despite the fact that methane, its primary component, is 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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Activists Dragged Out of Climate Expo for Protesting Corporate Influence over COP21 Negotiations

On Friday, climate activists gathered at the Grand Palais in Paris protesting the COP21 "Solutions" exhibition, where businesses were pushing for corporate and privatized responses to climate change. Several protesters were evicted from the premises by the large security presence at the event.

EU scientists and politicians clash over gas and nuclear as ‘sustainable’ investments

Scientific experts have reiterated what they have been saying since the beginning: gas and nuclear have no place in the taxonomy.