Sunday, August 2, 2026

Tag: environment

Media Silent as Native Americans Successfully Halt Construction on Oil Pipeline

It’s the Keystone XL Pipeline all over again.

Instead of Supporting Trump, Here’s What the Koch Brothers are Doing...

The Koch Brothers have started a pro-fossil fuel front group, “Fueling U.S. Forward,” that seeks to get the public emotionally invested in fossil fuels as being “pro-human.”

Massive Methane ‘Hot Spot’ Linked to Fracking

This The 2,500-square mile hot spot, located in the Four Corners region of the southwest United States, is more than triple a standard ground-based estimate and is a huge contributor to global warming.

Chief State Scientist Resigns and Accuses Republicans of Covering Up Water...

State Epidemiologist Megan Davies has resigned her position because of the corruption of Governor Pat McCrory's administration.

Teens Discover Seed That Naturally Cleanses Polluted Water

The seeds of this tree can filter contaminated water, remove impurities and even make water drinkable again.

Epic Middle East Heat Wave is Being Compared to Weapon of...

Temperatures in the Middle East have reached record heights leaving scientists worried about the future.

Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Reminds World That Climate Change is Very...

The Opening Ceremony at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games centered on climate change and its effects.

A Former Governor Admitted He Put Economics Ahead of Safety When...

Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell admitted his state’s fracking regulations favored economics over environmental safety

Oil Spills are Actually Good for Birds, Fish, and the Economy...

“Environmentalists worry that an increase in oil trains could lead to a rise in oil train derailments, but witnesses that testified before the EFSEC on behalf of Vancouver Energy say oil spills might not actually be that bad for the environment.”

“Indian Point:” A Disaster Waiting to Happen

The film emphasizes: “With so much attention focused on Indian Point, the future of nuclear plants in the United States might depend on what happens here.”

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The Mississippi State Capitol building in Jackson

Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties

The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
The headquarters of CalSTRS, the California teachers' pension fund at the center of The Lever's reporting. Photo: Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly

The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
A Flock Safety automated license plate reader mounted on a solar powered pole. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning

Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.

ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media

The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
A view across Kryvyi Rih, the central Ukrainian city where six people were killed in a suburb during the overnight assault. Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages

Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.