Tag: climate action
Rethinking climate action: A new guideline for planetary health
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.
Trump’s energy pick weaponizes global poverty to block climate action
Chris Wright has taken a different tack on climate—less outrageous, but no less dangerous.
Plastic waste cleanup alliance found producing 1,000 times more plastic than...
Investigation reveals Alliance to End Plastic Waste members produced 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up, raising serious concerns about industry greenwashing.
Ending oil subsidies and taxing the rich could unlock $5 trillion...
The report, released during the United Nations General Assembly talks and ahead of the COP29 climate summit, outlines a series of proposals that could shift resources away from environmentally harmful practices and toward sustainable development.
Biden-Harris administration announces historic $7.3 billion clean energy investment for rural...
This landmark investment in rural America is the largest since the New Deal, creating jobs, cutting pollution, and transforming rural energy infrastructure.
Environmental groups protest outside Amazon on Prime Day demanding company strengthen...
The demonstration, which shut down Sixth Avenue, was led by environmental advocacy groups including Stand.earth and the Ship It Zero coalition, climate and community advocates.
Global consensus: Majority support quick fossil fuel phaseout, even in top...
A new UNDP poll reveals overwhelming global support for a rapid transition to clean energy and stronger climate action, including in major fossil fuel-producing countries.
Biden admin takes ‘long overdue’ steps to limit methane emissions from...
The U.S. Department of the Interior takes a bold step forward with new rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas operations on federal and Tribal lands, marking a significant leap towards sustainable energy practices and environmental stewardship.
2023 has been a big year for climate accountability in the...
From a groundbreaking trial in Montana to a “truly historic” human rights hearing in Europe, climate change litigation took big steps forward this year.
The US Constitution may hold the key to solving the climate...
Drawing from U.S. case law and legislation, an argument for climate action centered on birthright equity is building momentum.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.