Monday, August 11, 2025

Single-use plastic production on the rise in 2021 despite environmental impact, new report finds

"We need a fundamentally different approach, that turns the tap off on new plastic production.”

Tens of millions in PPP loans went to corporate polluters after companies were fined...

Tens of millions of dollars went to companies with environmental mishaps.

‘Willful ignorance’: Indigenous delegation incredulous at bankers’ attitude to fossil fuel impacts

US and Mexican activists fighting new oil and gas projects said they had to give a basic lesson on the harm caused by fracking during meetings with financiers in London.

‘First protest in space’ slams Trump

”Look at that you son of a bitch.“

‘Terrifying’: Leak shows industry plot to worsen methane emissions—if Trump wins

Yet the plan, which runs in contradiction to Democratic Party aims, will only be actionable if Trump returns to power.

50+ mayors vow to ‘vigorously resist’ EPA’s Fuel Efficiency rollback

"We strongly urge the auto industry to join us, and to use its influence with the Administration to ensure that these standards remain in place."

EPA gives school districts across U.S. nearly $1 billion to buy clean school buses

“It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution″

Bernie Sanders Seeks to Cut Carbon Emissions by 80%

“What the scientists tell us is that we have a relatively short window of opportunity to bring about the fundamental changes that we need in our global energy system to transform our energy system."

Hurricane Dorian: DeSantis & Trump haven’t curbed CO2 emissions & should resign

DeSantis should resign the governorship and just go home.

US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration to award millions for port improvement projects

$580 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to fund 31 port improvement projects in 15 states and one U.S. territory.