Rex Tillerson testified Tuesday in a New York lawsuit that could be a turning point for prosecuting powerful actors who knowingly deceived others about climate change. Rex Tillerson, who served as CEO of ExxonMobil from ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
Hydraulic fracturing, savior or sin? That depends on who you ask. The fossil fuel industry and its proponents tout fracking’s economic benefits as this oil and gas extraction technique has led the march toward the ...
California is once again battling wildfires across the state as the Kincade Fire rages on in Northern California and the Getty Fire erupted Monday morning in the Los Angeles hills. With over a dozen wildfires ...
The future of renewable energy could lie in offshore wind power and may soon become cheaper than natural gas in Europe. The global transition to clean energy could be led by offshore wind power according ...
Fine particulate matter has been on the rise in the U.S. since 2016, a disturbing reversal in recent U.S. air pollution trends for environmentalists. A new study released this October by the National Bureau of ...
Despite filing for bankruptcy, Pacific Gas & Electric is finding the money to line the pockets of Washington politicians. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) Pacific Gas & Electric, the California utility that’s shutting off power to ...
The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups. ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part ...
World leaders continue to fiddle as the world burns. The world is burning. Record or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires. California has been ...
While paraquat has been banned in the European Union since 2007, millions of pounds are still being imported into the U.S. from other countries. (Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is downplaying the ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson. The Guardian’s new “Polluters” series, dedicated to uncovering the structures driving the climate crisis, revealed ...
Environmentalists and other proponents of utility reform argue the forced outage is a sign that California should replace PG&E and invest in safer, renewable infrastructure. Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to around 800,000 California ...
Extinction Rebellion activists of all ages are continuing to press for action on climate during a planned two-week-long protest in several major European cities. In 48 hours, the London metropolitan police arrested more than 500 ...
Neoliberal free-trade policies that favor aggregated seed, food and chemical corporations prevent family-scale farms that use regenerative practices from profiting. We need a fair Green New Deal now. In February, a dairy farmer friend sent ...
“We fear that he [Barry Lee Myers] wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather.” Easy access to weather forecasts is a given for most Americans. The national weather service, a ...
“When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term.” On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in New ...
PFAS are “forever chemicals”: They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for ...
“I see a new momentum. I believe in these last few months [there has been] a turning point.” World leaders gathered at the UN climate summit in New York City on Monday in the wake ...
“We’re here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Kicking off what organizers say will be the largest mass climate demonstration in history, ...
“This will be the biggest fight in environmental law since the Clean Power Plan. Maybe bigger.” President Trump said his administration would revoke an Obama-era waiver on Wednesday that allowed California to set its own ...
Chubb’s new anti-coal policy demonstrates how the insurance industry can help mitigate the climate crisis. It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery ...
There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. The Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20, is expected to draw millions of people across 150 ...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting. Alexander von Humboldt was born on September 14, 1769. In his day, he was a globetrotting, ...
“It’s going to be chaos. We’re going to see suits brought all over the country.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed an Obama-era rule on Thursday that expanded the federal government’s regulatory power over much ...
“The effects from exposure to complex organic and inorganic contaminant mixtures at low concentrations are poorly understood.” (Beyond Pesticides) Heavy rains in urban areas bring together a toxic mixture of man-made chemicals which make their ...
“Throughout his time at Interior, Joe Balash spearheaded efforts to suppress science, ignore indigenous rights and sell off the Arctic Refuge for drilling at all costs.” Top Interior Department official Joe Balash is leaving his ...
“If EPA moves forward with this reckless and sinister proposal, we will see them in court.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday that it plans to soften Obama-era restrictions on methane, a potent greenhouse ...
“It should never have been applied to our state, and it is harming our ability to develop a sustainable, year-round economy for the Southeast region, where less than one percent of the land is privately ...
“These ugly emails reveal the utter contempt that Monsanto has for public health and for consumers, including mothers who only want to protect their kids’ health.” In just-released emails, a Monsanto executive expressed his desire ...
“I feel the U.S. has tremendous wealth… I’m not going to lose that wealth on dreams, on windmills – which, frankly, aren’t working too well… I think I know more about the environment than most.” ...
“The scale of new production forecast from the US is staggering, no other country comes even close.” The United States is on track to produce 61 percent of the world’s new fossil fuel production over ...
Fires on Gran Canaria, the second most popular island of Spain’s Canary Islands, have already forced the evacuation of thousands and remain uncontrolled. A wildfire that ripped through the island of Gran Canaria in Spain’s ...
Both Germany and Norway are pulling donations to Brazil’s Amazon fund over concerns that the Brazilian government is promoting the spread of deforestation. The Norwegian government has reportedly suspended donations allocated to the Brazilian government’s ...
“I doubt anything can be done to overturn the EPA actions at this point, at least not quickly. The administration has demonstrated it has no respect for scientific conclusions, court orders, or public demands for ...
A huge cattle ranch business is flouting bans designed to protect the rainforest and selling its cows to the world’s largest meat company. (By Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal, Dom Phillips, Daniel Camargos, Mie Lainio, André Campos, Diego Junqueira, The Bureau of Investigative ...
“The Endangered Species Act works; our communities—both natural and human—have reaped the benefits. This safety net must be preserved.” The Trump administration rolled out sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act on Monday, weakening protections ...
“This attempted power grab at the expense of state-based clean water oversight is the epitome of hypocrisy.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Environmentalists on Friday denounced the Trump administration for once again attempting to boost ...
“The extraordinary heat was accompanied by dramatic ice melt in Greenland, in the Arctic and on European glaciers. Unprecedented wildfires raged in the Arctic for the second consecutive month, devastating once pristine forests. This is ...
“Proposing to register sulfoxaflor for use on bee-attractive crops, in the midst of an ongoing pollinator crisis, is the height of irresponsibility.” (By Beyond Pesticides) Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a ...
“The EIB’s proposal to end financing for fossil fuels by 2020 is a massive step forward in climate leadership. With this move, the world’s largest multilateral lender is now poised to leave oil, gas and ...
“The number of honey bee hives in the U.S. dropped from about six million in 1947 to just 2.4 million in 2008, with 2018 being the worst year on record for hive loss.” (Beyond Pesticides) ...
“For a fraction of the cost of the Trump tax cuts, we could pay for a trillion new trees and offset 2/3rd of all emissions to date.” New research from the journal Science shows that ...
The UK’s joint project with American military firm Lockheed Martin is the largest in the world but poses risks to deep sea ecosystems. (By Zach Boren and Alice Ross, Unearthed) Deep sea mining could lead ...
“What is happening in coastal Alaska is what is coming in one sense for everybody else. Changes are happening, and changes will be magnified.” Anchorage, Alaska, reached 90 degrees on Thursday, shattering all-time temperature records ...
“Heat waves will become more intense, they will become more drawn out, they will become more extreme, they will start earlier, and they will finish later.” Monthly and all-time temperature records have been breaking across ...
“The fate of coal has been sealed, the market has spoken.” This April, the United States generated more power from renewable resources than coal for the first time in U.S. history, according to a new ...
The EPA regularly utilizes the “emergency exemption” rule to circumvent enacted restrictions on pesticide use. (Beyond Pesticides) On June 17, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) once again approved “emergency” uses of sulfoxaflor, a bee-toxic ...
“It makes no sense to continue handing out massive tax breaks to dangerous refineries like the Philadelphia Energy Solutions facility.” Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest oil refinery on the East Coast, suffered a massive explosion ...
“The fact that we’re still using hundreds of millions of pounds of poisons other nations have wisely rejected as too risky spotlights our dangerously lax approach to phasing out hazardous pesticides.” (Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. ...
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