Saturday, May 18, 2024

Why the US culture of colonial extraction is making people sick and destroying the...

Rupa Marya, a physician and musician, studies how social structures impact health. She says colonial capitalism fractures the critical relationships that keep us healthy.

It’s time for Charles Koch to testify about his climate disinformation campaign

For more than two decades, Koch-controlled foundations spent more than $160 million to stymie government action on climate change.

‘Radical action’ needed to reach global climate goals, renewable energy agency says

“The current crisis shows that we must accelerate, not slow, the renewable energy transition. This is the only true path to energy security.”

50% of US lakes and rivers are too polluted for swimming, fishing, drinking

A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds the country has fallen far short of the Clean Water Act's goal.

U.S. regulator delays climate considerations for gas projects

“President Biden campaigned on bold and ambitious goals to tackle the climate crisis and environmental injustice. Supporting the push to expand gas exports and lock in decades of fossil fuel production is directly in conflict with these goals.” 

Media repeats Kremlin anti-fracking claims—while ignoring Russia’s promotion of climate denial

Climate skeptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the world have been bankrolled by the Kremlin.

Organizing across state lines to stop a pipeline

Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big Oil’s monied interests.

Largest American wind farm ever built all-at-once opens in Oklahoma, saves customers $1 billion...

Even in a gas and oil state, customers are saving a billion dollars by switching to wind.

Youth strikes worldwide demand climate action that centers ‘people not profit’

"The current system is widening the inequality gap—it has no place in our society."