Tag: fossil fuel
In ‘targeted strike’ against environmental and racial justice, Trump EPA curbs...
"Like so much of what Trump is pursuing now, this is a targeted strike against environmental justice and racial justice."
Instead of protecting public health during COVID-19 crisis, Trump moves to...
"Every federal dollar wasted on this effort is a dollar stolen from cleaning up the industry's toxic pollution legacy in the Navajo Nation and across the West."
Bill McKibben on Earth Day at 50: We must stop subsidizing...
Half a century later, in the middle of a pandemic, protests planned around the world have moved online, and the Trump administration has gutted the EPA, rolled back fuel economy standards and eased the enforcement of pollution regulations.
Baltimore, Rhode Island argue they’re suing fossil fuel companies over climate...
While the Baltimore and Rhode Island cases proceed in state courts, the fossil fuel companies continue to pursue federal court jurisdiction.
Burning fossil fuels made coronavirus death rate worse, and kills 200K...
Coal companies and Big Oil like ExxonMobil and all those fracking companies are thus killing off a million Americans every five years.
As coronavirus worsened, Trump admin pushed offshore drilling and gas exports
“Unfortunately, we now have to add to this burden that we cannot rely on some of our government officials entrusted to protect our public lands and interests.”
North Dakota’s carbon capture project Tundra another ‘expensive greenwashing’ attempt to...
Project Tundra's boosters are frank about the project's intent: To maintain coal's primary role in North Dakota's energy mix.
‘Fossil fuel companies knew’: Honolulu files lawsuit over climate impacts
Honolulu now joins these communities that are turning to the courts to hold Big Oil accountable.
Oil execs, anxious about public support, claim halting fossil fuel production...
“As a legal matter this claim is laughable so it’s better thought of as a PR stunt.”
‘Arbitrary and capricious’: Federal judge throws out oil and gas leases...
Calling the policy "arbitrary and capricious," the judge said there was significant evidence that the Bureau of Land Management was intentionally shutting the public out.
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More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
The persistence of ‘Israel First’
Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”
How agave agroforestry can restore drylands and strengthen climate resilience
The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands.
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.
Report: State textile laws spark massive drop in apparel PFAS levels
"No PFAS, No Problem: Product Testing Reveals Success of CA and NY PFAS Textile Laws" found that 80 percent of tested consumer products are now in compliance with newly enacted restriction.