Tag: fossil fuels

In the 3rd quarter of 2016, solar installations in the U.S. were up nearly 200% over the 3rd quarter of 2015.

Trump’s carbon-obsessed energy policy and the planetary nightmare to come.

"We are going to keep putting pressure on you businesses and you banks—Citibank, Wells Fargo—to stop poisoning our people and stop financing climate change."

Google has put its money where its mouth is on renewable energy over the past six years, repeatedly showing that renewables are not only good for the climate, but good for business.

The incoming president has picked climate change deniers and pro-fossil fuel bigwigs for cabinet positions.

Early Tuesday evening, a gas pipeline ruptured near Kansas City, provoking a large fire. This latest leak further highlights the hazards pipelines present to the environment and public.

If Trump is able to reverse state and local bans on fracking, he will in effect be giving oil and gas companies the right to pollute people's farms and drinking water.

Local, community-based leadership is needed now more than ever to build the next economy—one that doesn’t pollute poor people, and send the money to rich people elsewhere.

Governments worldwide are finding that public opposition to fracking for gas is growing because of concerns that it will worsen climate change.

There is growing grass-roots activism directly confronting the extraction and transport of fossil fuels in addition to raising awareness of climate change.