Victory for activists as DNC considers hosting a climate-specific debate
Youth and climate activists had relentlessly expressed their desire for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to host a climate change presidential debate....
A Koch-fueled attack on electric buses picks up speed
Despite these efforts by Koch affiliates and oil industry consultants, the electrification of bus transit is firmly underway.
Investigation into chemical exposure from fracking in Pennsylvania provokes call for rapid phaseout
“Pennsylvania’s children should not be used as laboratory rats,” said biologist Sandra Steingraber, who called fracking “an uncontrolled human experiment” that involves “toxic exposures.”
Populist climate action requires thinking about freedom from specific oppressors—not just species survival
The climate crisis is a form of oppression by a wealthy few.
3 charts: What Trump doesn’t want you to know about the climate emergency
Trump and his cronies are deeply invested in or beholden to ExxonMobil and other Big Carbon firms who stand to lose billions if the public realizes the harm they are inflicting on us.
Cheap wind and solar should prompt ‘rethink’ on role of CCS, paper argues
“Now that renewable electricity is so cheap, this should cause us to seriously rethink the role of CCS.”
$83 billion West Virginia petrochemical deal with China on skids due to trade war,...
The deal would be worth more than the total gross domestic product of West Virginia, which was $76.8 billion in 2017.
Lawsuit launched against Trump EPA for approving fracking waste dumping into Gulf of Mexico
At least 10 fracking chemicals routinely used in offshore fracking could kill or harm a broad variety of marine species, including marine mammals and fish.
Exterminating the future: World outcry grows as Brazil rapidly expands deforestation of Amazon
New government data in Brazil shows that deforestation in the Amazon has dramatically increased since the far-right former military officer Jair Bolsonaro...
Save the renewable fuel standard
Help us tell the EPA to keep the Renewable Fuel Standard and keep the United States moving away from dependence on foreign oil.