Democratic candidate Joe Biden revealed an aggressive green energy plan on Tuesday. While the package is designed to push America toward a 2035 carbon-free goal, the $2 trillion plan would also create new employment opportunities, ...
Director Damon Gameau imagines what the future could look like by the year 2040 if “we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a series of bills on Friday that will bring to fruition several progressive policy ideals when they go into effect July 1. While much of life has been on hold ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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.” ...
“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. ...
“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 ...
Reducing the suffering of chickens can only happen if companies follow through on their promises. Consumers and scientists agree: Eggs from hens raised in cages are bad business. “Cage-free” is much more than a trend—soon, ...
In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign. Josh Fox, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Gasland,” the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people. In 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that ...
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 ...
When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce their land rights, they are protecting their future—and ours. This summer, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
We’ve run out of time. We cannot waste any more precious time listening to anyone who insists that the climate crisis is a hoax. The younger generation is not listening to the denial B.S. The ...
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 ...
“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 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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“We need an honest debate on this, where people can actually show what they intend to do rather than offer bromides and bumper-sticker comments in 60 seconds.” The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is facing outrage ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
A MapLight analysis of Federal Election Campaign data found that 65 House members who opposed the measure received $268,965 from the 10 largest oil and gas companies in the U.S. since the beginning of the ...
“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 ...
The plastic bag ban, which came into place on January 1st, 2019, shows that the government is making strident moves towards sustainability. Over 2019, Jamaica will be making the transition to an outright ban on ...
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 ...
Kenney spoke of how he would defend Alberta’s resource sector with a “fully staffed, rapid response war room” that would, “effectively rebut every lie told by the green left.” Jason Kenney and his right-wing United ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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