Over 100,000 people tell the EPA to ban glyphosate
This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will decide whether or not to allow glyphosate to be used in the US...
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
Big oil companies are selling their wells. Some worry taxpayers will pay to clean...
“The overall industry is being assaulted right now through policy changes at the state and federal level. That’s the story writ large. The industry is dying.”
Concept hybrid planes could reduce deadly air pollution by 95 percent
“If you want to get to a net-zero aviation sector, this is a potential way of solving the air pollution part of it, which is significant, and in a way that’s technologically quite viable.”
Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal plan
Yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his version of a Green New Deal proposal which seems to be the most aggressive plan compared...
Top cancerous air pollution sites in US revealed
The worst three are in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," five of the top 20 are in Texas, and predominantly Black areas experience double the cancer risk of white areas.
Blowout erupts in west Texas’s Permian Basin, creating 100-Foot tower of oily water
A 1961 oil and gas well is the suspected source of a geyser eruption in the region where Permian wastewater disposal is causing a flurry of earthquakes.
Indigenous tribe leads efforts to reintroduce condors to Pacific Northwest
“The California condor is a shining example of how a species can be brought back from the brink of extinction through the power of partnerships.”
Multi-stage, four-year plan to bolster endangered butterfly population underway in California
Behren’s Silverspot butterfly, a federally endangered species since 1997, was once seen in abundance along the Northern California coast.
What’s at stake if the US OK’s building this gas pipeline to Mexico
The pristine site is in the proposed pathway of the 48-inch-diameter Saguaro Connector Pipeline, which would send natural gas produced in Texas’s Permian Basin 155 miles west.