Tag: environment

The Army Corps announced Sunday that the Dakota Access pipeline will be rerouted. Here are the numbers that show what lies ahead.

This is a tremendous victory over the oil industry as well as their big financiers.

Because of their leadership, the climate might be able to withstand what havoc Trump may wreak.

The effects of Arctic warming could be felt as far away as the Indian Ocean, in a stark warning that changes in the region could cause uncontrollable climate change at a global level.

After receiving notice of the US Army Corps’ plan to evict peaceful protesters from their camps, Sioux tribal leaders have responded with dignity and defiance, promising to stay put in defense of their land and people.

Trump will try to fast-track fossil fuel projects across the country. That makes the final months of President Obama’s term more important than ever.

A group of US youth, ranging in age from 9 to 20, were granted the right to sue the federal government and fossil fuel industry over climate change and environmental degradation that endangers their future.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that DNB was “reconsidering its participation” in the financing of the pipeline if “concerns raised by Native American tribes against its construction are not addressed.”

This comes just over a week after the election of Donald Trump, who has vowed to pull the United states out of the Paris Agreement and has called climate change a Chinese-created hoax.

With this plan, it will be hard for the current President-elect to come in a change or alter the policy.