Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Tag: carbon emissions

Unilever to cut fossil fuels from cleaning brands by 2030

“We cannot let ourselves become distracted from the environmental crises that our world—our home—is facing…”

Congress investigates how Marathon Petroleum and Koch Network influenced clean cars...

Marathon “worked with powerful oil-industry groups and a conservative policy network financed by the billionaire industrialist Charles G. Koch to run a stealth campaign to roll back car emissions standards.”

Concentration of CO2 hits record high

“The saddest thing is that this won’t be breaking news. And basically no one understands the full meaning of this.”

House Dems introduce the CLEAN Future Act

This new proposal aims to have the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Stanford study says renewable power eliminates argument for using carbon capture...

“I call these solutions 'magic' because they are unlikely to accomplish much in the real world except to distract our attention from the necessary work of cutting emissions.”

Extinction Rebellion’s car-free streets showcase the possibility of a beautiful, safe...

Standing in the middle of a usually busy central London street during Extinction Rebellion’s protests, the air noticeably cleaner, the area quieter,...

Trump admin to officially revoke California’s waiver to set stricter emissions...

In its latest move to undermine action on the climate crisis, the Trump administration will formally rescind California's waiver to set stricter auto emissions standards under...

Big Pharma emits more greenhouse gases than the automotive industry

Healing people is no justification for killing the planet.

‘Thinned by extraordinary amounts:’ Glaciers in Antarctica melting at accelerating rates

Glaciers in Antarctica are melting at an alarming rate. According to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letter,...

Plastics industry on track to burn through 14% of world’s remaining...

“Really the surest solution to dealing with the problem of plastics and climate is to reduce plastic production, to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, to move towards eliminating the use of single-use plastics and non-essential plastics.”

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You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.

Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?

GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...

Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?

The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations

The agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.

How worker-owned news outlets are changing the media industry

For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.