Tag: environment

After months of protest, the government scaled back its plans – at least temporarily.

Abandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover.

We need transformation. And we’re here to tell Mitch and every one of his colleagues that we will transform the Senate, if they aren’t up to the task.

Frugality doesn’t just save money – it helps save the environment, too.

Offshore oil drilling: regularly disastrous – and unnecessary.

“We’re going to keep fighting, we’re not going to allow this to be a sacrifice zone for people of color.”

Now the inspiration is coming back across the Atlantic, and European teens will soon be joined by a mobilization of American high school students who will demand action from one of the world’s worst polluters, the United States of America.

"The acknowledgement from the Judge, that climate change is a valid concern for campaigners and councils facing fracking planning applications, is a big win."

And that's the heart of the problem – the rush to make plastics from cheap fracked shale gas in America hasn't been driving more polluting plants out of business, it's been adding to the world's new plastics production.

The leading force behind this wave of action is an organization called Sunrise Movement, which launched in 2016 with the immediate goal of making ambitious climate action a key issue in last year’s midterm elections.