Tag: environment
Climate change is impacting every aspect of modern life, but the...
July is slated to become the hottest month in recorded history, as extreme weather fueled by global warming wreaks havoc across the...
Wetter weather worsens risks from coal ash ponds, environmental advocates report
Ohio’s wettest 12-month period on record highlights the risk flooding can present to power plants’ coal ash ponds, but groundwater contamination remains...
Trump’s drilling leases on public lands could release 4.7b metric tons...
A national conservation group revealed Wednesday that President Donald Trump's drilling leases on public lands could lead to the release of more...
‘Astonishing’ Texas legal Win tops decades of clean-water heroism
Precedents Set: Big $$ Penalty Fueled by Key Citizen Evidence
Sometimes, unstoppable anti-pollution champions must get their feet...
Current investigation of ExxonMobil could spur broader climate action
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a state-led investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate change deception.
The good news about Trump’s very bad environment speech
It’s hard to find the nuggets of good news in the media these days. Many people are so burnt out on the...
23 Governors join together with California to oppose Trump’s fuel efficiency...
Governors from 24 U.S. states are standing together and backing California officials who are asking the Trump administration to put the brakes...
Only a mass movement can bring about a Green New Deal
Ours is an age of crisis. Britain faces a crisis of inequality, with the Tories’ brutal austerity program leaving schoolchildren eating from bins and...
Why we can’t ignore U.S. military emissions
The U.S. military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks,...
Trump reverses water bottle ban in national parks
The 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” gave national parks the allowance to prohibit the sale of plastic water bottles, which helped reduce park...
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Growing old with Donald Trump
Let’s face it, Donald J. Trump is proving to be a genuinely long haul of a president.
Health cuts strip coverage from nearly half a million New Yorkers
The first major coverage losses from HR 1 are hitting low-income New Yorkers who now face higher premiums, deductibles, or no insurance at all.
Democratic socialist topples 15-term Denver incumbent
Melat Kiros’ defeat of Rep. Diana DeGette marks another insurgent win for the party’s left wing and a warning to entrenched Democrats.
UN finds ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in Gaza
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
A recent United...
How Russia and China learned to love their border
Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.