Tag: environment
California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging
The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.
US Justice Department tells Supreme Court to reject Big Oil petition...
The Justice Department is siding with communities in Colorado and across the U.S. that are fighting to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate lies.
Study finds global coffee production at risk from climate change
“During any given year, climate hazards such as heatwaves, droughts, frosts and floods can each affect coffee yield.”
Top US law schools accused of creating a student ‘pipeline’ into...
The LSCA is now calling out top-ranked law schools for their role in propping up the fossil fuel industry through what the report refers to as a “fossil fuel lawyer pipeline.”
5 surprising things that could be preventing your backyard from serving...
Prevent your backyard from being an “ecological trap” by taking these key actions to protect wildlife.
US averages one chemical accident every two days, analysis finds
Increasing numbers of incidents have increased concern over safety and public health for communities across the country.
How to beat the ‘fracking frenzy’—lessons from the campaign that ended...
“We want to make the government listen to the community, who for over a decade now have been saying that fracking is not safe, not trusted, not wanted in the territory."
How bioenergy causes air pollution: The dark side of renewable energy
On the ground, burning biomass contributes to many air pollution impacts.
Humanity’s secret war against the environment, ourselves, and our children
Inequitable family planning and illogical pro-growth policies are taking away every child’s right to a fair start in life.
A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less...
Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.