Tag: climate change
Architect of federal fracking loophole may head Trump environmental council
The push for climate change’s non-inclusion in NEPA appraisals “puts our country, our communities, and our people at great risk.”
It’s official: Trump budget would make deep cuts to climate and...
“It's now up to Congress to restore funding, recognizing that America's economic and security interests are intertwined with the well-being of people and the planet.”
Trump’s defense secretary cites climate change as national security challenge
James Mattis’ unpublished testimony before a Senate panel recognizes a threat others in the administration reject or minimize.
Pakistan’s billion tree tsunami
How a reforestation campaign is tackling climate change.
Koch-connected dark money funds much more than climate denial
It's time to unravel the network of science deniers who claim the mantle of science and expose them for what they are.
Trump administration attempting to cut leading climate science agency budget
Deep budget cuts to the NOAA and other climate science agencies could threaten public safety and academic programs.
6 ways citizens across the U.S. are using science to build...
By collecting climate change data, monitoring air quality, and reverse-engineering insulin, locals are creating a more just and equitable society.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy pushes natural gas as climate solution at...
Senator Cassidy assures his consituents there will be oversight, but how can he when he is sorely out of touch?
Must watch: Bernie Sanders and Bill Nye discuss climate change
“Instead of accepting that the climate is changing, deniers are denying the evidence and dismissing the authorities.”
Germany bans meat at all official functions to combat climate change
Because animal agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment recently banned meat from being served at official functions.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.