Greta Thunberg: 5 Years after Paris Agreement, world is ‘speeding in the wrong direction’...
“The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute."
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.”
How a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty can guide a global just transition & emission...
“This treaty talks about ending fossil fuel expansion, phasing out, and also just transition.”
Big oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show
Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.
‘A big deal’: Bill McKibben on Rutgers fossil fuel divestment & the future of...
Author, environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben says the Rutgers divestment decision is “a big deal,” especially as it happened at one of the oldest universities in the United States.
Facing their failure to meet 2020 biodiversity targets, world leaders pledge action & funds
Amid calls from the U.N. Chief to stop treating the earth ‘as if we have a spare one,’ French President Emmanuel Macron led world leaders in commitments to protect ecosystems at the One Planet Summit
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.
Shell’s Permian Basin sell-off unlikely to reduce climate pollution
“You’re not reducing emissions, you're just transferring who produces them.”
EPA to curb HFCs, severe climate-damaging pollutants used as coolants
Scientists estimate that a global push to reduce HFCs could avoid a half degree Celsius of global warming over this century.
State of Emergency in California as Santa Barbara Cleans Up from Another Major Oil...
While the cleanup of crude oil leaked from a broken pipeline started off slow, efforts are underway at the shores of Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara, California. This latest spill recalls a catastrophic blowout that happened in 1969.