Tag: climate change
Exxon leaving ALEC: Important but insufficient step in addressing company’s history...
Over the last few years, ExxonMobil has come under fire numerous times for lobbying in the UK against electric vehicles, funding Congress and corporate lobby groups to deny climate change, and knowingly misleading the public about the reality of the issue.
Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end...
While Ireland is making history, many emphasized the need for the rest of the world to follow the Irish's lead.
What #ShellKnew and how it was used to stall international climate...
For almost two decades, Shell has pushed the same proposal to tackle climate change, which still hasn’t come to fruition.
Historic floods in Japan kill more than 100, force millions to...
"We've never experienced this kind of rain before."
Diet, ignorance and the environmental crisis
Awareness is the critical ingredient in change, individually and collectively.
Two different government agencies remove ‘climate change’ from their websites and...
Many experts believe the to be in line with Donald Trump's lead since he took office.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 4, 2018
New ICE policy gives immigrant families a cruel choice, two more government agencies ax climate change from their websites, a majority of Americans want Citizens United overturned, and more.
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
Tropical forests lost 40 football fields of tree cover per minute...
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.
New study further confirms it: Fracking fuels global warming
Not only does fracking harm kids' brains, cause earthquakes, and poison water supplies, it also helps contribute to overall global warming.
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More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
The persistence of ‘Israel First’
Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.
Report: State textile laws spark massive drop in apparel PFAS levels
"No PFAS, No Problem: Product Testing Reveals Success of CA and NY PFAS Textile Laws" found that 80 percent of tested consumer products are now in compliance with newly enacted restriction.
How agave agroforestry can restore drylands and strengthen climate resilience
The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands.