Tag: environment

"It frustrates me to see those countries historically responsible for climate change causing – refusing to operationalize their legal obligations to assist developing countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable development and adapt to climate change."

Here's why that's bad news for the communities in both Canada and the U.S. where this influx of oil train traffic will pass.

"The good news is it's not too late to correct the course. As leaders meet this week at the UN climate talks in Poland, we urge them to run, not crawl, towards reducing emissions and accelerating a clean energy transition."

“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”

To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.

"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”

"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."

"It was a leak of significant proportions, with an impact on the mangroves."

"Our society's addiction to throwaway plastic is fueling a global environmental crisis that must be tackled at source."

The aggressive deployment of this NERA study suggests an escalation in the Koch-funded attack on the EV tax credit in the last few weeks of Republican control of both chambers of Congress.