Tag: environment
How tribes are harnessing cutting-edge data to plan for climate change
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest are leaders in climate adaptation and have mounted multifaceted responses to the threats they face.
Controversial Keystone XL pipeline gets green light from Trump
"The #KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline was a bad idea from Day One and it remains a terrible idea today."
While McConnell tries to rush Green New Deal vote, Senate Democrats...
"This is about our lives, and this should not be partisan. Science should not be partisan."
We need an ecological revolution
To save the long-term future for our children and grandchildren, and for all the other creatures with which we share the gift of life, we must overcome the inertia of our institutions and our culture.
Warren, Sanders, and Gillibrand top performers on 2020 climate leadership scorecard
"We're making it clear where 2020 candidates land on the policies and practices essential to any meaningful attempt at addressing the climate crisis."
Trump’s pick to head Interior blocked report warning of pesticide risk...
"It's outrageous that Trump, Bernhardt and the industry hacks inhabiting this administration are speeding the extinction of nearly 1,400 endangered species by refusing to take any action on chlorpyrifos."
Oil industry ponders getting ‘dragged into low-carbon future’ while claiming it...
As the DeSmog series Fracking for Plastics notes, Saetre is not alone in his ambition to either burn all the oil and gas or turn it into plastics.
Plastic pollution: Could we have solved the problem nearly 50 years...
What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?
Carbon emissions reach record high worldwide in 2018
"[D]espite major growth in renewables, global emissions are still rising, demonstrating once again that more urgent action is needed on all fronts."
Navajo Nation Council ceases efforts to acquire coal-fired power plant in...
“Navajo Nation Council signaled that it is time for change. In order to develop a healthy and diverse economy that does not overly rely on any particular industry."
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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.
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.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
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.
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.