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...
Category: Environment
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...
More Republicans Get Caught Lying On Climate Change
Climate change deniers aren’t crazy… they’re lying. John Iadarola takes on Senator Marco Rubio and other right-wingers on climate change… Read more…
By Gutting Methane Restrictions Trump Continues His Assault on the Environment
Continuing its relentless “assault on clean air, public lands, our health, and our climate,” the Trump administration on Tuesday gutted a major Obama-era...
Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Reaches $6.24 Trillion
The fossil fuel divestment movement which has so influenced the global economic and energy sectors over the past five years...
US Energy Efficiency Industry Employs Over Two Million People
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in...
California’s Gov. Brown Signs 100% Renewables by 2045 Into Law
Climate groups are praising the work of local organizers after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday legislation committing the state to 100 percent clean electricity...
ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Deniers
A decade after pledging to end its support for climate science deniers, ExxonMobil gave $1.5 million last year to 11...
9,800 New Solar Systems Installed By GRID Alternatives In California
The solar power nonprofit GRID Alternatives recently celebrated reaching the mark of 9,800 California solar power systems installed for low-income...
Big Oil Is Peddling Misinformation About Electric Cars
Christine Todd Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush back in 2001–2003. With experience...
Disgraced Scott Pruitt To Be Replaced At The EPA By The Even More Appalling Andrew Wheeler
Following the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), President Donald Trump announced that the...
Good News: Less Coal Burned Leads to Decline in Mercury Contamination in Tuna
Levels of highly toxic mercury contamination in Atlantic bluefin tuna are rapidly declining, according to a new study. That trend does...
New Opportunities for California’s Low-Income Households to Go Solar
Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Trump’s Environmental Policies Will Cost 80,000 American Lives And More That A Million Sick Kids
A letter released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives a preliminary accounting of Donald Trump’s environmental...
Pope Francis, Bill McKibben, & Poor People’s Campaign Address Climate Change
Writing in The Guardian this week, climate activist Bill McKibben suggests the world may miss its last realistic opportunity to...
Corrupt EPA chief Scott Pruitt collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show
Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to...
Scott Pruitt doing the bidding of powerful lobbyists with EPA chemical safety rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to roll back an Obama-era rule meant to reduce the risks of chemical disasters...
Scott Pruitt Caught Lying Again About His 24/7, 20-Man Security Team
The request for Scott Pruitt’s extraordinary level of security didn’t come from the inspector general, and wasn’t the result of...
Climate Science-Denying Trump Eliminates Carbon Monitoring System from NASA
Wise leaders facing a crisis want to suss out every bit of solid information they can about the parameters of...
Trump’s Billionaire Friend Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
