Tag: environment
Millions of unwitting Americans paying $1 billion more for dirty coal...
"Customers are being ripped off while cleaner and cheaper sources of energy are being crowded out because utilities are forcing customers to subsidize coal plants."
Glyphosate could be factor in bee decline, study warns
"We need better guidelines for glyphosate use, especially regarding bee exposure, because right now the guidelines assume bees are not harmed by the herbicide."
KXL Pipeline developer plans to start construction in 2019
The KXL has been at the center of a contentious fight for a decade.
Trump lets fracking companies release more climate-warming methane
Environmental organizations condemned the Trump administration's latest environmental rollback and criticized Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for siding with oil and gas interests.
New study finds mosquitoes could spread microplastics
A new study concluded that "plastic is contaminating almost every corner of the environment and its ecosystems."
25 zones along the proposed Shell Falcon Pipeline are at risk...
A landslide caused a natural gas pipeline 35 miles west of Pittsburgh to explode on Monday. It wasn't an isolated incident.
Warnings of ‘catastrophic and historic’ flooding as experts say worst of...
"For many (most?) places, the worst of Florence's flooding is still on the way. Still expecting record or near-record flooding across a large part of North Carolina in the days to come."
Pipeline that exploded in Pennsylvania part of push to build fracking-reliant...
The 24” diameter pipeline responsible for the blast had gone into service just seven days earlier.
Climate Summit co-chair Michael Bloomberg backs fracking & invests in fossil...
“It makes sense to frack.”
Climate change supercharges Hurricane Florence as 1.5 million evacuate in Carolinas...
People up and down the coast are preparing for extreme flooding and what the National Hurricane Center is calling a “life-threatening storm surge.”
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.