‘Huge victory for our oceans:’ Trump effort to open Arctic to oil and gas...
"Experts in environmental law estimate that the Trump administration has now lost about 40 environmental cases in federal courts."
6 lessons for climate activists in turbulent times
With astonishing victories and new innovations in organizing over the past year and a half, the climate movement continues to build power and supply hope amid a worsening crisis.
Noam Chomsky: The Green New Deal is exactly the right idea
"So the basic idea is, I think, completely defensible – in fact, essential."
From pollution to performance wear: Fair-trade clothes made from 100% ocean plastic
“My motto is: there’s already so much plastic out there, why are we making more? There’s so much we can be pulling from. It’s already a resource; we just have to get it.”
Billionaire emissions outpace lifetime footprints of average individuals, new report shows
The report examines how the super-rich’s use of luxury transportation and investments in polluting industries exacerbate the climate crisis.
Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating quicker than expected
“Extinction breeds extinctions.”
State Cutbacks, Recalcitrance Hinder Clean Air Act Enforcement
Federal law that underpins Obama’s Clean Power Plan is unevenly enforced by states with shrinking staffs, polluter-friendly policies.
The race to stop Tar Sands pipeline financing before loans are even made
Efforts to defund Keystone XL target same banks that supported DAPL. “If you stop the flow of dollars, you stop the flow of oil.”
‘A new and unanticipated danger of plastic pollution’: New study shows plastic’s effect on...
The study is the first of its kind to look at the impacts of plastic on this type of bacteria.
Sanders wants big oil CEOs to testify at Senate climate hearing
“These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel.”