Environment

If the plan goes ahead in its current form, it will fall short in safeguarding the wonder of our natural world.

Biden has pledged to make climate change and environmental justice a priority. Soon we’ll have a clearer picture of how his administration plans to tackle these intractable problems.

The developers seeking to build the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline through predominantly Black neighborhoods called it quits.

Scientists are warning that wildfire pollutants can continue to contaminate local waterways for up to eight years after a wildfire event.

“The negative impacts of methane have been widely acknowledged for years, so it’s frustrating and disappointing to see the administration go in a different direction.”

Compared to the destruction and harm BP caused in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, their settlement is very minimal, but at least they will have to pay for this spill. Let’s hope the government sticks to their guns and makes sure this settlement is passed.

Because of carbon capture and storage, a technology widely touted by the oil and gas industry and some political leaders as a key solution for climate change, the field could still be producing 1.5 million barrels of oil annually by the year 2100.

In response to Trump’s claims Biden would ban fracking, the Democratic presidential nominee assured a crowd in Pennsylvania that he will not do away with the practice.

With its defunding of scientific infrastructure across the country, “the Trump administration is truly putting Americans in harm’s way.”

Despite the change, the Biden administration said it does not plan to immediately reinstate the stricter requirements that were in effect before the rollback.