Tag: environment
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
Tropical forests lost 40 football fields of tree cover per minute...
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.
Derailed train spills 230,000 gallons of crude into flooded Iowa river
Rock Valley acted quickly to shut off water wells following the spill and plans to drain the wells and use rural water until the well water tests safe.
House passes farm bill – ‘rewards mega-agribusinesses and Wall Street,’ not...
"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."
Methane leaks from oil and gas 60% higher than EPA estimates,...
“Instead of looking for ways to patch up inherently flawed energy approaches like gas fracking we should be placing an immediate moratorium on all fossil fuel development."
5 ways Indigenous groups are fighting back against land seizures
While no measure can guarantee land security, these actions have helped communities protect their homes.
Affirming belief that waters are for drilling and pillaging, Trump erases...
New executive order revokes Obama-era policy put in place following Deepwater Horizon.
ALEC’s deadly asbestos agenda benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide
Instead, Koch and its allies are working hard to pass laws that run out the clock.
Puerto Rico’s water system stutters back to normal
“Now I get desperate thinking that a hurricane will come.”
First plaintiff goes to trial against Monsanto claiming RoundUp to blame...
With thousands of cases being brought against Monsanto, the company's infamous weed-killer, RoundUp, is to blame by many cancer sufferers.
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How the UN can act decisively to end genocide in Gaza
Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly can take decisive action to end the genocide in Gaza, by authorizing a UN-backed arms embargo, economic boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, or even a military protection force for Gaza.
Appeals court rejects Trump’s wartime deportation claim under Alien Enemies Act
Fifth Circuit finds no “invasion” or “predatory incursion,” blocks Alien Enemies Act removals from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi while due process issues return to lower court.
Scores of climate experts condemn Trump climate report as ‘junk science’
“It reads like a list of common climate skeptic tropes—long ago rebutted by the scientific community—being rehashed by a group of disgruntled scientists.”
AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms
Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”
Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New data shows massive...
Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?