Tag: climate change
Justice Department wants Supreme Court to put a halt to youth...
About a week before the groundbreaking constitutional youth climate lawsuit heads to trial, the Department of Justice is trying to have the Supreme Court...
3 things you can do to help avoid climate disaster
Hint: Putting solar panels on your house and walking to work are not on the list.
US oil exports are exceeding almost all predictions – thanks to fracking
The fracking boom in Texas and New Mexico and subsequent export boom is a shining example – illuminated by the flares of fracked gas – of exactly what not to be doing.
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.












