Tag: environment
It’s raining PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in Miami, study shows
Their findings identified 21 types of PFAS in rainwater across the city, including the now-phased-out PFOS and PFOA compounds as well as newer PFAS varieties still used in manufacturing.
The sustainability scam: How self-interest ruins good ideas
We must ensure ecocentric standards to reverse environmental and social injustices.
Biden-Harris admin pledges $3 billion to electrify and clean up US...
The investment will support approximately 40,000 union jobs while reducing pollution and combating the climate crisis, a press release from the White House said.
Electricity is future of global energy new IEA report finds
By 2030, the report predicts that wind and solar along with other low-emission sources and clean energy technologies will generate more than half of the global electricity.
Trump and Orbán allies gather at anti-green event hosted by Project...
The two-day event on Sept. 17 and 18, co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, played host to high-ranking members of Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government, executives from anti-green think tanks, and UK politicians.
Global deforestation increased in 2023, report finds
If deforestation emissions were represented as a country, they’d be the fourth biggest emitter behind China, the U.S. and India.
Ask (not) what you can do for your planet
One small miscalculation and boom, there goes the neighborhood!
USDA invests $121 million to solve challenges facing specialty crop and...
The investment is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) $82.3 million in grant funding through the Agricultural Marketing Service.
Tensions escalate as Biden considers Israeli strike on Iran’s oil infrastructure
The announcement has sparked alarm across the globe, with concerns about soaring oil prices, increased instability in the region, and domestic political ramifications in the United States.
Liquefied natural gas worse for the climate than coal, Cornell study...
New research reveals that LNG exports from the U.S. have a greater greenhouse gas footprint than coal, challenging claims of LNG being a “bridge fuel.”
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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.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.