This is a climate emergency. We need more than half-measures from Democrats.
How to get the Democrats’ climate policy from “better than the Republicans” to “sufficient to save the planet.”
EPA boss launches program to ‘critique’ scientific consensus on climate change
Since taking the EPA’s helm, Pruitt has assisted with President Trump’s systematic dismantling of critical rules that protect the environment in favor of energy development.
‘Long overdue’: EPA bans all food uses of neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos
“Finally, our fields are made safer for farmworkers and our fruits and vegetables are safer for our children.”
TransCanada may abandon Energy East tar sands pipeline
"Transcanada may abandon its #energyeast pipeline because it doesn't want to confront the climate implications."
Biden drilling report blasted as ‘shocking capitulation to the needs of corporate polluters’
"The government's royalty rates and bonding requirements are far too low and lead to public money subsidizing Big Oil's profits while our federal lands and waters suffer egregious harm."
Conflict theory and biosphere annihilation
If you are not able to emulate Gandhi (at least ‘in spirit’) by living modestly, it is your own emotional dysfunctionality – particularly unconscious fear – that is the problem that needs to be addressed.
Fossil fuel industry outspent environmentalists and renewables by 10:1 on climate lobbying, new study...
“Different corporations typically push for whatever positions are advantageous to their economic well-being.”
Warnings of ‘catastrophic and historic’ flooding as experts say worst of Hurricane Florence yet...
"For many (most?) places, the worst of Florence's flooding is still on the way. Still expecting record or near-record flooding across a large part of North Carolina in the days to come."
‘Corporate greed at its worst’: top US utility giants reap $14 billion in profits...
"Utility companies have chased higher and higher profits and enriched investors rather than keep prices stable for working families."
‘Life threatening’ cold snap could break records across Midwest
Some scientists also think that climate change is making the polar vortex increasingly unstable, as warmer temperatures in the Arctic cause the jet stream to push more cold air further south, National Geographic explained.