Thursday, September 17, 2026

Tag: environment

Pope urges oil companies to lead clean energy transition in unprecedented...

"Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization."

TransCanada Pipeline explodes in West Virginia

TransCanada – the same company behind the Keystone pipeline – said the explosion has been contained and an investigation is underway.

Creating right relationship

Collective harmony relies on there being right relationship with all living forms and the complex ecological patterns of life of this most beautiful world.

17 governors renew climate pledges on anniversary of Trump’s Paris Accord...

The governors of sixteen states and Puerto Rico that make up the U.S. Climate Alliance recommitted their pledges to the Paris agreement and announced a new wave of initiatives to accelerate and scale up climate action.

Feds receive first application to explore ANWR for oil

"This scheme will put denning polar bears at risk and leave lasting scars on the fragile tundra and its vegetation, and that's before a single drill rig has been placed or length of pipeline installed."

Flip This Well: How fracking company CEOs get rich while losing...

Even when shale oil CEOs do fall, and wipe out billions in other people’s money, their falls seem to be cushioned with more cash.

EU moves to ban 10 most harmful single-use plastics

The directive was praised by environmental organizations.

Trump’s offshore drilling plan puts 68 national parks at risk

All of these parks would be in danger if Trump and Zinke's drilling proposal goes ahead.

Plastic killed most sperm whales found dead in Greek waters since...

"The evidence is starting to mount rapidly that we just cannot throw away plastic as we have been."

Trump administration to auction off public land in Northern Arizona to...

"This is Trump's energy dominance policy at work, where nothing matters except fossil-fuel interests."

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The US Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain)

Warren, Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to ban corporate ownership of physician practices

The bill would let doctors sue corporate owners for treble damages and give the Federal Trade Commission a role in enforcing the ban.
An Allina Health hospital in Minneapolis. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0

Minnesota doctors strike for four days in a first for US hospitals

About 150 physicians at two Allina Health hospitals walked out this week after three years of bargaining over sick days, pay and a role in patient care.
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists release an endangered species back into the wild. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS, public domain

Trump administration moves to let accidental killing of endangered species go unpunished

A leaked memo would count only deliberate harm as a violation of the 1973 law, even though most protected species die by accident.
A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.
Rep. Ro Khanna speaks at a 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign rally. Photo: Σ / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Ro Khanna and AOC Should Run for President in 2028

RootsAction and Progressive Democrats of America will launch a campaign after the midterms urging the two lawmakers to seek the 2028 Democratic nomination.