Saturday, July 12, 2025

Tag: environment

DNC will not host climate-specific presidential primary debate and plans to...

"The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time."

Britain just went nearly three weeks without coal, a new record

"2018 was our greenest year to date, and so far, 2019 looks like it has the potential to beat it."

If corporations have rights, so does nature

A whopping 61 percent of Toledo’s voters said “yes” to recognizing legally enforceable rights for the natural world.

Global rebellion to Save Our Planet

“The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it.” The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent,...

As natural gas infrastructure decisions loom, Massachusetts Gov. Baker invests in...

“Since the governor is weighing in on major projects designed to boost the gas industries in the state, it is not at all appropriate for him to invest personally in the same sector that he may develop, with tax dollars."

Costa Rica to become first country in world that’s both plastic...

“Decarbonization is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.”

How Indigenous peoples won a landmark victory protecting the Amazon from...

The Waorani people of Ecuador won a historic lawsuit to save their homes – and the planet – from destruction.

Fossil fuel subsidies mean using public money ‘to destroy the world:’...

"We need to tax pollution, not people, and to end subsidies for fossil fuels."

Fake news about energy, clean and dirty

I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting. I haven’t listened to any...

The terrifying implications of India’s elections for people and the planet

The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.

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Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human rights officials

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.

Five facts that show the enormity of American inequality

Whatever wealth exists among America's poor should not be taken away because of some ignorant prejudice of the rich.

No ordinary solidarity—inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.