“If polluters want to deny the existence of the ongoing bailout, Congress should swiftly repeal these blatant corporate tax giveaways and make fossil fuels ineligible for stimulus lending programs.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) A ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an above-average hurricane season for 2020. The 2020 hurricane season began on May 15th in the Pacific and starts on June 1st in the Atlantic. NOAA predicts a ...
An environmental photographer filed the copyright claim directly with YouTube YouTube took down a Michael Moore-produced documentary “Planet of the Humans” after a British photographer launched a copyright claim against the film. But Moore argued ...
Importing kangaroo meat and skins must be banned in the EU, but Americans can also help protect this iconic species. Before the global pandemic turned the world swiftly on its head, another disaster unfolded with ...
“This has the potential to be a major environmental disaster.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Floodwaters unleashed by a dam failure in central Michigan have reached a Dow Chemical facility and Superfund site, the company ...
“Hoyer does not actually have a problem with primary challengers, he has a problem with progressives.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Progressives and climate activists expressed frustration with Democratic Party leadership after Politico reported Tuesday that House ...
“Robbing from a clean energy future to prop up the dirty energy past.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) While giving fossil fuel companies access to relief funds ostensibly meant for small businesses struggling due to ...
“Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Environmental campaigners vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s EPA Thursday after the ...
The largest solar project in U.S. history was just approved. On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) gave approval for a 690-megawatt (MW) Gemini Solar + ...
“Polluters fought hard for kickbacks in the first coronavirus stimulus package and they are undoubtedly up to it again.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Recent lobby filings from major oil and gas paint a picture ...
“Trump is exploiting a public health crisis to help an industry known for pumping diseases and antibiotics into oceans.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Thursday that environmentalists warned ...
The ousting of “America’s #1 climate denier” from the leadership position on the board of the largest global lender of fossil fuels is being welcomed by the climate movement. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Author ...
“Rescuing fossil fuel production is absolutely the wrong direction for public health amid a global pandemic.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) The Federal Reserve came under fire Thursday for expanding its emergency Main Street Lending Program ...
A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent. Over the past several months, wildfires have burned a huge portion of Australia’s natural landscape. We’re talking almost ...
The native plant movement and backyard habitat projects seek to re-create livable natural spaces for endangered pollinators and other animals. The world’s wildlife is in danger of dying off, and inevitably taking humanity out with ...
“We keep getting clear signs that the way we live and the actions we take are having severe consequences.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) The largest ever assessment of long-term insect abundance found that there ...
“This decision is a huge victory for clean water. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to blow a big hole in the Clean Water Act’s protections for rivers, lakes, and oceans.” In ...
“In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A new report examining the ...
The oil and gas industry is weaker than ever, offering a perfect opportunity for humanity to pull the plug. While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid ...
With swift and utter clarity, the coronavirus pandemic is smashing the myth of U.S. individualism. We are not independent individuals as many of us like to think, making it because of our own strengths or ...
Despite a recent study from Harvard showing strong evidence that people breathing air with more particulate matter have a significantly increased risk of dying from COVID-19, the EPA has chosen to maintain old standards on ...
“The oil price collapse creates a historic opening: a public buyout of the fossil fuel sector to enact a managed decline of extraction and ensure a just transition for workers and communities.” (By: Julia Conley, ...
“We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we’re on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The western United ...
“Keystone XL and other proposed fossil fuel pipelines would devastate frontline communities and wreak havoc on our environment.” The Keystone XL oil pipeline has encountered another obstacle to its competition. Montana Chief District Judge Brian ...
Coal companies are “going to try to use this virus thing to stop paying benefits,” warned one retired miner suffering from black lung. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Some of the largest coal companies in ...
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be required to backstop oil and gas companies that were already in trouble prior to the pandemic.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Climate advocates are slamming banking interests after a report Thursday revealed ...
“Oh, so we have to pay our rent, but now Big Oil doesn’t have to pay anything for destroying our public lands? Cool, cool.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) A coalition of climate organizations strongly ...
“They’re taking political advantage of a crisis when they know it’s more difficult to respond.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to issue sweeping environmental rollbacks, including the termination of Obama-era ...
“Only the Trump administration would aggressively promote the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance on wildlife refuges.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a ...
One major lesson from the pandemic is that we can save the planet from climate change. Amidst all the terrible news about the spreading coronavirus epidemic, a scintillating fact has emerged that can energize the ...
“South America is no longer to follow the resource nationalist project of Evo Morales; this is Elon Musk’s South America, a place for the neo-conquistadors to make money and leave behind them social carnage.” Elon ...
The movement to revillage our modern world seeks to combat mental illness, housing and climate disasters. Our current ways of living are life-threatening and unsustainable. Our increasingly individualized society is contributing to epidemic levels of loneliness and isolation, depression, anxiety and other mental health ...
“When your house is on fire, you don’t wait a few more years to start putting it out. And yet this is what the Commission is proposing today.” The European Union proposed a law on ...
“It’s a sobering reality we’re in.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in danger of a catastrophic bleaching event that scientists warn could have dire consequences on the survival of one ...
The world’s top meteorological experts issued the warning as cities and countries around the world reported record-breaking warm winters. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) As countries accustomed to cold, snowy winters reported record-breaking warm weather ...
Days before an export ban took effect, 32 wild-caught elephants were flown out of Zimbabwe to China. The secrecy around the ongoing capture and trade of the nation’s wildlife exposes lack of accountability, transparency and ...
Freecycle plans to add a lending and borrowing tool to encourage people to share with friends and neighbors. Our global landfills are overwhelmed, and the U.S. shows no signs of slowing its huge contribution to ...
“Economists at the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels are warning that ‘we cannot rule out catastrophic outcomes where human life as we know it is threatened.'” Economists at JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest financier ...
The concerns follow new research suggesting that the climate crisis could completely wipe out all of the world’s coral reef habitats by 2100. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Australian scientists and conservationists warned in the Guardian Thursday that ...
“We knew fossil fuel extraction – including fracking – was a major part of global methane emissions, but this impressive study suggests it is a far bigger culprit in human-induced climate change than we had ...
“The EPA’s proposed rule will make it more likely that people who live and work on or near farms will be sprayed with dangerous pesticides.” Environmental experts are sounding the alarm against the Trump administration’s ...
“Bottled water companies should not be allowed to extract an essential public resource and sell it for private profit.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Advocacy groups are encouraging voters in the state of Washington to pressure ...
“This verdict is just the tip of the iceberg.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) German chemicals giant Bayer announced Monday its intention to “swiftly appeal” a U.S. jury’s decision to award a Missouri peach farmer over ...
“Indigenous people see what’s happening to us and see what’s happening to our territory and our pristine waters – and to our people on the ground, having semiautomatic weapons aimed at us. People are responding ...
“Time to get off fossil fuel and on to renewables.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Ten years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster sent hundreds of millions of gallons of oil across the Gulf of Mexico, ...
We paid for hundreds of thousands in coverage and are legally owed, but our insurer refuses to pay us. On November 8, 2018, I was trapped in my car as embers fell all around me ...
“This…truly proves that industry, not the people, can control the province and its laws.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have arrested over 20 protesters of a pipeline that would cut through the land of ...
The research “adds to a growing body of evidence for alarming, widespread losses of biodiversity and for rates of global change that now exceed the critical limits of ecosystem resilience.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) ...
“To have a new record set that quickly is surprising, but who knows how long that will last? Possibly not that long at all.” A record-breaking temperature of 65 degrees was taken at an Argentinian ...
“The administration’s new managment plans “are the latest in a series of insults… that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears Ears and Grand Staircase at the behest of corporate interests two years ago.” (By: Jessica ...
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