Tag: environment
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Latest Effort to Block Air Pollution Rule
Twenty states tried to derail the Obama administration’s mercury regulation.
Court OKs the Destruction of Koala Habitat for a Giant Coal...
The Chinese-owned project could kill hundreds of the marsupials in one of Australia’s most fertile agricultural regions.
Pakistan’s Parliament First in the World to Go 100% Solar
“Pakistan’s solar insolation is one of the highest in the world, and foreign investors are taking note.”
Obama Just Protected 1.8 Million Acres of Desert. Here’s What They...
The three new national monuments in California’s Mojave Desert region link up important wildlife habitats.
There’s No Fracking That Can Be Done Safely
It is time everyone joins together in building the renewable energy future.
Dispossessed in the Name of ‘Security’
“The military is looking to expand its role by emphasizing what it portrays as ‘security’ threats arising from ecological disasters.”
Political Poison
The Flint lead disaster exposed the callousness of people like Michigan’s governor, who blame the poor for all of their misfortune.
The Earth is Becoming a Plastic Planet
A new study says future geologists will be able to study our era based on the layer of plastic debris collecting worldwide.
Voter Asks Ben Carson: If You’re So Smart, Why Don’t You...
At his town hall meeting in Iowa City, Ben Carson was asked why he does not publicly accept climate change to which Carson replies climate science is “politicized.”
Obama Ends New Coal Leases on Public Lands
The federal coal leasing program had not been updated for 30 years until Obama’s recent move to stop a majority of new coal leasing on America’s public lands.
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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.
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.
‘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.
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.