Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
Category: Environment
People of Ogoniland Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
Student Movement Leads To 100% Renewable Energy Policy For Salt Lake City Schools
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...
Shady US Department Trump official used his position to get his son-in-law an EPA job
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
Groups Challenge Financial Sector to ‘End Support for Fossil Fuels and Climate Chaos’
Ahead of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil’s virtual annual shareholders meeting Wednesday morning, scores of international climate, human rights, faith, and Indigenous...
New Trump public land rules allows hunters to kill bear cubs in their dens
The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaska’s national preserves to shoot bears and wolves, and their cubs...
Fossil Fuels Already Get Billions in Bailouts — They’re Called Subsidies
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced that it would be loosening its lending guidelines so that more corporations, even those with...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic
Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now actively downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...
Nobel laureates condemn harassment of environmental lawyer
Twenty-nine Nobel laureates have condemned alleged “judicial harassment” by Chevron and urged the release of a US environmental lawyer who...
Exxon Now Wants to Write the Regulatory Framework for Methane Emissions
ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own...
ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers
ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part of the...
UN Warns That Climate Change Is Greatest Threat To Human Rights
According to UN Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet, there is no greater threat to human rights across the globe than climate...
United Electrical Union Endorses Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Trump’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards Could Cost Americans $460 Billion
A new analysis from the nonprofit advocacy group Consumer Reports warns that American drivers could lose about $460 billion dollars in fuel...
Trump Guts Endangered Species Act in Gift to Big Business
Environmentalists denounced the Trump administration for crashing a “bulldozer” through the Endangered Species Act on Monday after the Interior Department...
Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
Ancient air bubbles trapped in ice enable us to step back in time and see what Earth’s atmosphere, and climate,...
Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty
Climate change is making headlines this summer with record temperatures, devastating floods, and climate-related migration. But in the U.S., mainstream...
New York City sues Big Oil
New York’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced that the city is suing five fossil fuel companies for damages over...
Clean Tech Jobs Lead Employment Statistics In Twelve US States
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
Big Oil Invested More Than $1 Billion On Misleading Climate Lobbying
The globe’s five largest publicly-traded oil and gas majors — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total — invested...
Ocasio-Cortez calls out GOP for attacking Green New Deal as ‘socialism’ while bankrolling Big Oil with billions in subsidies
During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Republicans for attacking the Green New Deal...
The Republican party is the political arm of the fossil fuel industry
For Republicans, the climate crisis is a joke. On Tuesday in the Senate, Mike Lee, a Republican senator for Utah,...
The Green New Deal is already happening in several cities and states
Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, along with 66 House representatives and 10 Senators, introduced their highly-laudedGreen New...
Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign To Face Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet...
US Clean Energy Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs Three to One
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
California’s $100 Million 2019 Low Income Solar Program
California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with...
Fossil Fuel Companies Give 7-Times More Cash To Senators Who Oppose Green New Deal
The 88 senators who have declined to support the the Green New Deal have collected close to $59 million, according...
University Of Delaware Sets Up Courses To Train Offshore Wind Professionals
Last fall, the University of Delaware, in partnership with the Energy and Climate Academy of Denmark, announced it was creating a...
Solar Panel Installer and Wind Turbine Tech Are Fastest Growing Occupations In US
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
Big Oil Tries To Kill The Electric Car (Again)
Electric vehicles are getting close to a major tipping point, and it isn’t just fans who are taking notice. The...
Carbon emissions up as Trump gang rolls back climate change work
A new analysis shows US greenhouse gas levels are increasing as the Trump administration unravels efforts to slow climate change. Carbon...
Solar Power Jobs Program Developed To Provide Skills For At-Risk Youth
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
24 Million Jobs Could Be Created From Meeting Paris Climate Agreement Targets
This month, when diplomats met in Poland to negotiate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the United States took on...
Trump Continues His Insane Assault On The Environment
What do you call someone who places your life in imminent danger? If it’s intentional, it’s called attempted murder. If...
Scientists stand behind youth climate activists in support of Green New Deal
Rachel Gold, an earth sciences student at Brown University, has been too busy with her research into signs of abrupt climate...
Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Exceeds $8 Trillion
Writing in The Guardian this week, Bill McKibben, the tireless climate activist and founder of 350.org, reports this bit of good news...
Big Oil’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite the Country’s Car Emissions Rules
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers,...
Right-Wing Fox News Lets Trump’s EPA Head Choose His Own Questions In Interview
The combination of Fox & Friends and corrupt former Environmental Protection Administration head Scott Pruitt wouldn’t lead you to expect anything good,...
Alt-Right Fox News Focuses On Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes More Than Climate Report
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday criticized Fox News for not dedicating enough time to the gloomy new climate change report the Trump...
Fossil Fuel Companies Kill With Impunity. Why Are Their Leaders Not In Jail?
Over the course of 2018, I have started emphasizing how the extraction and sale of fossil fuels is like a...
Analysis: The Doom Of Fossil Fuel Investments
There is a very short window of time to get out of pure-play oil & gas company investments without substantial...
Some Good News For The Planet: Ozone Layer Coming Back
As it turns out, the impact of human activity on the planet and the environment can work both ways. This...
Cleantech Creates Far More US Jobs Than Dirty Energy Does
There’s a wildly incorrect claim that Republicans are more “pro-job” or “pro-economy” than Democrats. That’s absolutely not true… Read more…
Trump Admits Climate Change Is Not A Hoax, Doesn’t Plan To Do Anything About It Anyway
On 60 Minutes last Sunday, putative president Donald Trump backed away from his famous assertion that climate change was a hoax invented...
Climate Change: Warm October Ocean Water Was Fuel for Hurricane Michael’s Devastation
Sometimes connecting climate change to a specific weather event is difficult. With Hurricane Michael, it’s not. The science is easy: Earth’s waters...
