“Fossil fuels have a PR issue. As long as the market perceives them to be the culprit for carbon emissions, they will have a difficult time.” ExxonMobil’s stock plunged to a nine-year low on Tuesday ...
“It is alarming that Canada is so dead-set on pursuing the TMX when oil prices are declining, forests are burning, and more and more animal species are on the edge of extinction.” (By: Jessica Corbett, ...
“There is no way to build a greener, more inclusive economy without strong, thriving labor unions.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Over 60 environmental groups on Wednesday urged Democratic lawmakers to support the sweeping pro-union ...
“That money could be spent on upgrading infrastructure, health service, schools, parks, quality of life. Instead it will be plundered by oil barons.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) International human rights and anti-corruption group Global ...
“As wildfire experts have repeatedly explained, you can’t log or even ‘rake’ our way out of this mess. The Trump administration and the interior department are pushing mystical theories that are false in order to ...
“I’m done with fossil fuels … they’re just done. We’re starting to see divestment all over the world. You’re seeing divestiture by a lot of different funds. It’s going to be a parade. It’s going ...
“Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society… With his death, not only my family lost a loved one; but the whole world, and ...
“Chevron is using its limitless resources to crush defendants and win this case through might rather than merit.” Chevron is waging a scorched earth legal campaign against the environmental lawyer who won a multi-billion suit ...
“Does a crisis really happen if it is not in the headlines? YES.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Out of the top 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world last year—many of them climate-related—nine ...
“What this new U.N. Human Rights Committee decision does is allow lawyers to actually use this precedent-setting text to argue in future court cases [for] a client that fits within this kind of narrow definition.” ...
“This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the ...
“Steve Mnuchin thinks Greta Thunberg needs an economic education, where she can take courses like ‘strip-mining Sears assets 103’ and ‘forging signatures to take homes away from people 204′” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin mocked teenage ...
The start of the World Economic Forum coincides with a new Oxfam report on global income inequality, which found that the richest 1% now hold more wealth than 6.9 billion people. Climate change and extreme ...
“Although people argue against costly regulations, unrestricted use of these chemicals is far more expensive in the long run, with American children bearing the largest burden.” (Beyond Pesticides) Exposure to environmental chemicals in the U.S. ...
“As wildfires rage out of control and our planet endures record-breaking temperatures, Democrats must stop oil and gas companies from using backroom trade deals to destroy the environment.” The new NAFTA replacement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ...
“The corruption is absolutely shameless.” (By: Julia Kelly, Common Dreams) More than a dozen former lobbying clients of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt have spent nearly $30 million convincing the Trump administration to do the bidding ...
“What’s happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. We know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” The last ten years ...
“BlackRock beginning its shift of capital out of fossil fuels, including today’s divestment of coal in its actively managed funds, is a fantastic start…” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest asset ...
The already devastating Australian wildfires are on pace to be the worst environmental disaster of the last century. Updated figures from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science have now doubled the impact of Australia’s ...
“Stop the Money Pipeline” campaign demands that banks, insurers, and asset managers cut ties with planet-destroying companies. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Climate activists on Thursday announced a new campaign that aims to send a ...
“We are excited to be joining the movement to make Bernie Sanders the Democratic nominee for president. We believe he can win the nomination, defeat Donald Trump in November, and usher in down-ballot victories that ...
“We may be in the midst of a national security crisis, but that is not stopping the administration from rolling back climate change regulations.” While the majority of media attention focused on the U.S.’ escalating ...
“The fires have burned so hot and so fast that there has been significant mortality of animals in the trees, but there is such a big area now that is still on fire and still ...
Despite multiple warnings that Australia would face “catastrophic fires,” Australia consistently ranks as one of the worst countries on climate change policy. Australia’s worst bushfire season on record intensified on Tuesday, forcing thousands of people ...
Wind farms are one of the obvious choices for transitioning off fossil fuels, but for Trump they are a massive point of contention. President Donald Trump went on a tangent that included his favorite wind ...
“We notified the EPA 18 years ago that PFOA in drinking water presented a public health threat, and in 2019 there are still no federal regulatory limits.” Corporate lawyer Robert Bilott spent two decades fighting DuPont ...
“Nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve Exxon Mobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change in the production of its fossil fuel products. But Exxon Mobil is in the business of producing energy, ...
Investing in grid infrastructure would enable utilities to incorporate modern technology, making the grid more resilient and flexible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ recent decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to ...
“It is a bad time to buy into an oil company whose major asset is reserves in the ground that can sustain current production levels of the carbon-laden fossil fuel until near the end of ...
“We have these companies completely wrapping themselves in the colors of the U.N., pretending to be green, whilst underneath the dirty reality is they’re climate criminals.” Protestors condemned the presence of fossil fuel corporations at ...
“PG&E pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither.” On Friday, California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of several ...
Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia. Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest, add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops and tigers ...
Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In ...
When methyl parathion was sprayed on Maui cornfields on July 15, 2014, Bayer Monsanto knew full well that this use was prohibited. (By Beyond Pesticides) Bayer’s Monsanto endangered public health and the environment by knowingly ...
“This should not be anyone’s reality and unfortunately, it is for communities sitting at the fence-line of the petrochemical corridor along the Gulf Coast — an ever-growing corridor because of the billions of dollars being ...
Indonesian fires this year emitted nearly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as the forest fires that razed parts of the Brazilian Amazon, new research shows. (By Hans Nicholas Jong, MongoBay) Fires from land and ...
The rollback of the Chemical Disaster Rule is the latest of the EPA’s slashed environmental regulations, joining asbestos, coal ash, chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, methane, and carbon emission deregulations. The Environmental Protection Agency weakened an Obama-era regulation ...
Wisconsin is now the 10th state to pass an ALEC-inspired “critical infrastructure protection” bill, and other states are considering similar proposals to ban pipeline protests. Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers signed a bill into law ...
A Bill Gates’ backed renewable energy project has made a solar energy breakthrough that could lead to replacing the use of fossil fuels in industrial settings. Clean energy startup Heliogen is using artificial intelligence and ...
According to a new climate report, rising sea levels will make extreme flooding that used to happen in Venice once every 100 years occur every six years by 2050. Venice’s famed historic sites are at ...
In May Washington state joined New York state, Vermont and Maryland in passing fracking bans. Of these four states Maryland is the only one that has known oil and gas reserves. According to the U.S. ...
“This proposal has nothing to do with science. They want politicians, not scientists, to evaluate the evidence of harm to the public.” The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to restrict the science it ...
The 11,000 scientist-endorsed letter offers several long-term policy prescriptions to climate change. More than 11,000 scientists joined to warn of “untold suffering” from the climate emergency in a report published on Tuesday, a day after ...
The assassination of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a member of an Amazon defenders group known as the “Guardians of the Forest,” has prompted outrage from indigenous rights and environmentalist groups. (By Karla Mendes, Mongabay) Paulo Paulino ...
Mike Pompeo, the so-called “congressman from Koch,” announced the U.S.’ formal withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement on Monday. The Trump Administration notified the United Nations on Monday that it plans to formally withdraw from ...
The new toxic coal ash rollbacks join a litany of other slashed environmental protections, from methane to asbestos to carbon emissions. The Trump Administration’s relentless rollbacks of environmental protections continued on Monday, as the Environmental ...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart. As the sun shimmers across a tundra covered with wildflowers and lichen, as many as 80,000 ...
The controversial Keystone Pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil on Thursday, making it already the eighth largest spill of the decade. The Keystone Pipeline leaked approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil in ...
When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of ...