China Bans New Coal Mines: Why Hasn’t U.S. Done the Same?
Should President Obama should use his last year in office to effectively put measures in place that keep fossil fuels in the ground?
Trump administration to strip clean water protection putting the country’s water at risk
"Waters that have been protected for almost 50 years will no longer be protected under the Clean Water Act."
How the COVID-19 crisis can help fight climate change
“Just as we need a vaccine for COVID-19, climate change requires urgent solutions that can’t wait a generation. But people are moved to modify behavior based on emotion, not on research.”
Seattle just divested billions from Wells Fargo over Dakota Access pipeline
Minneapolis and others are ready to follow.
The first ever US oil lease sale in the Arctic is a huge fail
“Essentially, the Trump administration had a party, hoped the oil industry would show up, and it didn’t.”
‘Plastic rain’ is pouring down in national parks
The plastic is trapped in fundamental atmospheric processes and falling all over the world, making plastic rain the new acid rain.
Using Trump tax cut for good: Patagonia donates $10 million to the planet
"Instead of putting the money back into our business, we're responding by putting $10 million back into the planet. Our home planet needs it more than we do."
US Presidential Election 2020: How the outcome could affect the Canada and climate change
The candidates know about the need to proceed cautiously regardless of their broader positions on environmental change.
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.
‘Existential threat’: Indigenous leaders urge Citigroup to stop backing Amazon oil
Indigenous leaders said the bank's role in enabling the expansion of the oil and gas industry was pushing the Amazon rainforest closer to the brink of collapse.