Youth climate lawsuit against Canadian climate policy can go to trial, court rules 
The Federal Court of Appeal said “the burden of addressing [climate] consequences will disproportionately affect Canadian youth.”
SoCalGas, nation’s largest gas utility, sues California over climate policy for not ‘maximizing the...
The SoCalGas lawsuit “is a flailing and petulant move by [the] gas industry willing to try anything to prevent California from moving past fossil fuels.”
World leaders’ lack of urgency to fight climate crisis hangs over UN General Assembly
“Climate change ignores power politics. It doesn’t care how many armies you have, how many weapons you have… We saw in the pandemic when we don’t organize collectively how damaging it is. Climate is just much worse.”
EPA proposes improved water pollution control standards for slaughterhouses and rendering facilities
EPA begins process of mandating pollution reductions.
‘Major hurdle’ cleared as youth activists advance historic climate case
“These brave young people have cleared a major hurdle in their pursuit of a judgment which compels European governments to accelerate their climate mitigation efforts.”
Over 70,000 march in Brussels to demand Green New Deal, urgent climate action
"We need a Belgian Green New Deal and we propose more than 100 concrete solutions to make it happen.”
Court requires EPA to protect communities against worst-case chemical spills
“It is way beyond time for EPA to exercise the moral and political courage to protect these overburdened communities from the daily assaults on their health and quality of life.”
Will the US Catholic Church Divest from Fossil Fuels and Buy Solar Panels Instead?...
The pope is trying to get the word out to U.S. Catholics to do something practical about climate change. Will Pope Francis help move all Americans toward a greener and less dangerous future?
Arizona to use people in prison to fight its wildfires, pay $1.50 an hour
Incarcerated people clearing brush, in temperatures that hit 115°F in Phoenix for six days in a row last week, will make $1.00 per hour.
Exclusive: 'Eco-Terrorist' Freed 10 Years Early After Feds Withhold Evidence on Informant's Role
In his first interview since his release, Eric McDavid, environmental activist who has just been released from prison 10 years early, discusses his release exclusively with Democracy Now! Watch it in its entirety here.