Tag: climate change
Trump admin. wants to make it easier to frack and mine...
"Instead of weakening protections, Trump should clean up the mess the mining industry has already left behind in our forests."
Groundbreaking youth climate lawsuit against US government can proceed
The groundbreaking lawsuit targets the government for creating policies that encouraged climate change, and for violating the country's youngest citizens their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property, as well as failing to protect essential public trust resources.
Confronting climate change in a deeply unequal world
Humanity has, the scientists tell us, about a dozen years to get our environmental act together. Or else...
With planet in ‘crisis mode,’ Bernie Sanders rips Trump White House...
"You have an administration that virtually does not even recognize the reality of climate change and their policies, working with the fossil fuel industry, are making a bad situation worse."
Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 12
Law students launch nationwide strike against illegitimate justice, Chinese intel officer arrested and charged with economic espionage, Enbridge Pipeline explosion forces First Nations community to flee, and more.
Ex-NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen: We need to act now to...
We speak with Hansen in Minneapolis about the valve turners, the recent IPCC report about the imminent threat of climate change and what must be done to save the planet from destruction.
10 worst plastic polluting companies found by global cleanups
In the U.S. specifically, a total of 70 cleanups determined that Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola were the worst corporate plastic polluters, in that order.
Climate scientist: As UN warns of global catastrophe, we need a...
Or otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty.
Dutch court of appeals upheld aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reduction, puts...
"The court of appeal's decision puts all governments on notice. They must act now, or they will be held to account."
In the race to achieve zero hunger and mitigate climate change,...
"In the race to beat food insecurity, achieve zero hunger, and address climate change, we must pay attention to the soil."