Plastic can take more than 400 years to degrade and most of it litters our oceans and waterways. In a statement released on Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the country will prohibit ...
“This is like assembling a panel of ‘gravity skeptics’ who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings, except in this case they want to take us all with them.” The White House tried to ...
The process of corporate plunder in the global mining industry is severely aggravating social and economic inequalities across the planet. “The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.” —J. Paul Getty The ...
“[The FDA investigation is] really just scratching the surface. It opens up many more questions than answers.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed on Monday that PFAS, a class of manmade chemicals used ...
“With Bolsonaro, people who destroy forests feel safe and those who protect forests feel threatened.” Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached its fastest rate in a decade last month, according to satellite images from Brazilian space ...
A new proposal from the DOT would both increase the maximum sentence for damaging pipelines and broaden the scope of activities considered criminal. The Trump administration released a proposal on Monday that would make pipeline ...
Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] project is critical to spreading ‘freedom gas’ throughout the world… The Department of Energy has begun using peculiar phrasing in regards to fossil fuels. A ...
It’s “unconscionable for EPA to turn a blind eye as children and workers are exposed to this poison. If the EPA won’t do its job when it comes to chlorpyrifos, then Congress needs to act – ...
“We don’t feel like we have a choice: It’s been years of talking, countless negotiations, empty deals on climate change and fossil fuel companies being given free rides to drill beneath our soils and burn ...
“Each month seems to bring fresh revelations of just how far WWF is prepared to go to promote fortress conservation. Shoot on sight policies, sterilization programs for villagers living near national parks – these are ...
“Let’s hope the federal government sends Scott Pruitt the bill for his clueless self-indulgence.” The EPA’s inspector general is recommending the agency recoup nearly $124,000 spent on excessive airfare by former EPA head Scott Pruitt. ...
“The Trump administration just ignored bedrock environmental and public health laws to plow a disastrous border wall through protected, spectacular wildlands.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday that it is waiving 41 ...
Monday’s rally in D.C. gave Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement a platform to promote the Green New Deal. “I’ll be damned,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Green New Deal rally, “if the same politicians who ...
Beyond its link to hormone-dependent breast cancer, neonicotinoids are most infamous for their well-documented role in driving mass pollinator declines. (Beyond Pesticides) Researchers have documented an increase in food and drinking water residues of neonicotinoids, insecticides linked to ...
“It’s really unprecedented for political leaders to fail to pay attention to any of the scientists in either regional offices or headquarters.” The New York Times released a report Wednesday revealing EPA officials disregarded the ...
“All of a sudden, the speech today shifted everyone’s attention to, ‘Are we looking at next conflict in Arctic?'” Secretary of State Pompeo spoke to diplomats at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland ...
“More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened.” One million animal species are currently threatened with extinction, according to a landmark ...
One ad lampooned Polis as holding positions more in line with “Radicalifornia” than Colorado and attacked him for supporting universal health care. (By Tim Zelina and Andrew Perez, Maplight) Two oil and gas companies with extensive interests ...
According to the study, Brazil lost 25% of per capita GDP, Nigeria lost 29%, and India lost 31% because of climate change. The first of two new climate studies finds that climate change intensifies the ...
Earth Day produces many worldwide demonstrations and arrests throughout the week. The Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based grassroots organization, has organized a series of international protests to demand governments take action on climate change. The ...
Dr. Geyer told the Guardian that plastic pollution, which usually ends up in landfills or oceans, will result in a “near-permanent contamination” of the earth. Two recent studies found plastic pollution to be worse than ...
The orders are in part an attempt to develop the northeastern Constitution pipeline, which has been stalled after New York cited the Clean Water Act to reject it. President Trump signed two executive orders on ...
“David Bernhardt’s ties to Big Oil — the very industry he is tasked w/ regulating — are as deep as an oil well. Those ties should be disqualifying for anyone nominated to head the Interior.” ...
“It was really a matter of lobbyists scratching each other’s backs. ‘We’ll throw a pile of coal money at trying to destroy Bears Ears, if you grazing chaps will throw some cow money at our ...
From 1999 to 2018, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA reported 11,992 pipeline ‘incidents,’ with 600 in 2018 alone. The U.S. has an estimated 439,000 miles of unregulated pipelines, enough to circle the ...
The fracking revolution has led to private equity’s highest allocation of investment in fossil fuels in 20 years, but is it basically a Ponzi scheme? United States natural gas consumption increased 10% in 2018. The ...
The donations highlight the existential stakes for the fossil fuel industry in the debate over the Green New Deal. (Maplight) The average congressional opponent of the Green New Deal has received 24 times more campaign ...
“If political appointees weren’t stopping the government’s own scientists from doing their jobs, this brain-damaging, wildlife-killing horror of a pesticide would already be banned.” (By Beyond Pesticides) A set of documents obtained by the Center ...
“The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of our commonwealth to a permanent oil price decline.” Norway’s $1tn wealth fund – the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world – is planning to cease funding ...
The results found that 74 percent of existing national coal capacity “was at risk from local wind or solar that could provide the same amount of electricity more cheaply.” According to a new study from ...
“Therefore good engineering practices includes consideration of foreseeable extreme weather events such as those caused by climate change.” A federal judge has allowed the Conservation Law Foundation to proceed with a lawsuit against ExxonMobil that ...
In the United States, there are no regulations for the type of pipeline that devastated the Tercero family and so no one violated any rules. On Aug. 9, 2018, a pipeline with a dime-sized hole ...
On Friday, March 15, around 10,000 students in several countries skipped school to raise concerns about climate change. Tens of thousands of students walked out of school and held rallies in countries across the globe ...
The oil giant claims to be a leader on tackling methane emissions but successfully lobbied against two major regulations tackling the problem. (By Lawrence Carter, Unearthed) British oil major BP successfully lobbied the Trump administration ...
Malaysian investigators work to clean up from a chemical waste dump and find the responsible parties. Fumes from chemical waste dumped in a river in the southern Malaysian state of Johor forced the closure of ...
As a cargo ship sinks off the coast of France, worries of an oil spill loom. (Reuters) French authorities battled on Thursday to contain an oil slick after the Italian Grande America ship capsized in ...
Ultimately, prosecutors found insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that PG&E acted with a reckless disregard for human life in causing the fires. (Reuters) – An investigation into fierce wildfires that swept Northern ...
The Fukushima cleanup is already running out of space to store treated water. And should another big quake strike, experts say tanks could crack, unleashing tainted liquid and washing highly radioactive debris into the ocean. ...
“Our report proves that coal plants are poisoning groundwater nearly everywhere they operate.” (By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters) – More than 90 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants that are required to monitor groundwater near their ...
Four widows of Nigerian activists are suing Shell for their complicity with the Nigerian Military in the execution of their husbands in 1995. In 1958, Shell discovered oil fields in the southern part of Nigeria ...
“We’re here to warn him and all senators: if you refuse to back the Green New Deal, young people will remember next time you ask for our votes.” (By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Hundreds of ...
Many mining operations in the region are operating without valid permits, and as a result, have been the defendants in numerous lawsuits. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, showed the world what horrible tragedies can ...
Is David Bernhardt a successful reformer of the Department of Interior or an errand boy for the oil and gas industry? David Bernhardt, President Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), is ...
Neither Jim Lakely nor Tim Huelskamp responded to an email asking them to provide ‘their’ definition of Socialism and how the Green New Deal would lead to an authoritarian state. House Resolution 109 [H.Res.109] – ...
Members of both houses set out non-binding legislation defining the Green New Deal. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced legislation Feb. 7 they think should be the final solution to carbon emissions and ...
Magnetic north is on the move, wandering toward Siberia. If you check your compass now, it might give a faulty reading, rendering navigation less precise. A compass needle always points to the direction of the ...
Displaced coal miners in West Virginia are finding alternative forms of employment to replace their coal-mining history. Thousands of coal miners in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the nation, are out of ...
New research explains how naval sonar can cause whales to die from decompression sickness. Although scientists have known for a while that naval sonar can cause beached whales until recently they were unable to explain ...
“We could be watching the extinction of what was a common species just 5 years ago.” An “underwater zombie apocalypse,” is how University of California, Davis, veterinarian Joe Gaydos described a “sea star wasting disease” ...