Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Tag: fossil fuel

Plastics endanger human, planetary health at ‘every stage of their lifecycle,’...

From fossil fuel extraction, production, use, recycling and disposal, the study concluded that plastics are a "grave, growing, and under-recognized danger" causing disease and death.

How Big Oil hijacked EU-funded journalism training on plastic pollution

At an event ostensibly about plastic waste, none of the speakers were heard mentioning the need to reduce plastic production—the core issue driving the crisis.

The reality behind JP Morgan’s ‘net zero’: Billions flow to Big...

JP Morgan’s “green” funds have funneled over $4 billion to the fossil-fuel majors, betraying the firm’s promises and undermining efforts to achieve net zero.

Wind and solar power grows along side fossil fuel to help...

All major energy sources hit a record high in 2024 making renewable energy, oil, gas, coal, nuclear and hydropower responsible for the worldwide energy demand.

‘Powerful actors’ are spreading false information about the climate crisis, making...

Information Integrity about Climate Science found that climate action was being delayed and obstructed by misleading information from fossil fuel companies, some nation states and right-wing politicians.

Trump signs Congressional Review Act, reverses three California clean vehicle programs

California plans to challenge the resolutions through legal action.

Rethinking climate action: A new guideline for planetary health

A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.

MAPPED: 70 percent of Trump’s cabinet tied to Project 2025 groups

An analysis found that more than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan.

22 young Americans sue Trump administration to block executive orders pushing...

In Lighthiser v. Trump, the youth plaintiffs say the administration’s actions violate their constitutional rights to life, health and safety and breach congressional mandates to safeguard public health and ecosystems.

REVEALED: Now there’s proof that the fossil fuel industry uses cultural...

Campaigners have warned cultural institutions against accepting oil money, arguing that sponsorships are a key weapon in the public relations arsenal the industry deploys to thwart climate action.

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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.
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On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
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Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: NOAA, public domain

Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
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Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.