Grassroots energy projects are taking back power from utility companies
From solar power that cuts NYC energy bills and powers streetlights in Detroit to affordable high-speed internet throughout the United...
Category: Environment
Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, the US will be replacing all lead water pipes
15 billion of federal money from the Infrastructure bill will go to funding a project that would replace all old...
Majority of World’s Oil and Gas Workers Want to Seek Employment in Renewable Energy Industry
More than half of workers in the global oil and gas sector say they are interested in pursuing employment in...
Solar job numbers keep rising
The ongoing ravages of Covid-19 last year, and related solar power price inflation, failed to dent the photovoltaic industry’s ability...
Exxon, Chevron, & Toyota Are The Largest Anti-Climate Lobbyists
There’s a good chance you have never heard of InfluenceMap. I hadn’t either until today, when I read about it...
Oil, Coal, & Gas Got $5.9 Trillion In Subsidies In 2020
Joe Manchin is perseverating about spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years for Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. “We can’t...
Manchin has received $1.5 million from corporate interests attacking Biden agenda
Sen. Joe Manchin, one of a handful of Democratic lawmakers threatening to tank President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has received...
Cost of Build Back Better Proposal: Close To $0, Cost of Catastrophic Climate Change: $551 Trillion
Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House...
Lying, Cheating Oil & Gas Companies Stick Taxpayers With Cleanup Bill
In our minds, we envision an oil well faithfully pumping oil for decades after it is drilled. In reality, the...
Manchin Pretends Exxon Does Not Lead Him Around By The Nose
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
Extreme weather devastating US raises calls to pass Biden’s infrastructure bill
On August 30, 2021, President Joe Biden committed the federal government to help Louisiana and Mississippi recover from Hurricane Ida’s...
Economist Paul Krugman: Corporations refusing to pay taxes for climate change programs is ‘unforgivable’
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
54 Members of Congress (All Democrats) Push for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
New report examines utilities’ efforts to fight solar in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE) – A new report by Environment Florida’s Research and Policy Center examined efforts to undermine...
Infrastructure Plan With Major Climate Investments Would Create 26 Million Jobs
A report released Friday by Data for Progress and Evergreen Action shows that an infrastructure package with $2.6 trillion in...
Top oil lobbyist caught on tape revealing 11 senators ‘crucial’ to ExxonMobil
Channel 4 in the U.K. published a startling expose on ExxonMobil’s lobbyists who revealed the top most important U.S. Senators...
Report Illuminates Chamber Of Commerce’s Decades Of Delay & Denial
A new report lays out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s lengthy history of climate denial and lobbying against climate policy,...
ExxonMobil Worked To Shift Climate Blame
ExxonMobil used tobacco industry messaging strategies to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers, despite its...
Administration Releases “America The Beautiful” Conservation Plan
The Biden administration laid out its plan on Thursday to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The report seeks...
U.S. Department Of Energy Spurs Solar Deployment In Underserved Communities
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a slate of new efforts, including $15.5 million in new funding, to...
Report Says Electric Cars Will Save Americans $2.7 Trillion, Create 2 Million Jobs
A new report by the University of California at Berkeley makes several bold claims. First, it says all new cars and trucks...
Sanders, Omar Unveil Bill to End ‘Absurd Corporate Handouts’ to Fossil Fuel Industry
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate dozens of tax loopholes, subsidies, and other...
Biden Administration Takes Out The Trump Trash By Getting Rid Of 40 Trump EPA Appointees
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
Morgan Stanley: The Oil Industry Is About To Become Worthless
There’s a lot of denial and wishful thinking in the oil and auto fields these days, but on the other...
Despite Its Pledges, Shell Funded Anti-Climate Lobbying Last Year
Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050. The goal was vague...
Biden Administration Reviews Trump’s Assaults on America’s Natural Treasures
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Big Oil runs disinformation ads about climate change on Twitter
If Donald Trump’s presidency was good for one thing, it was waking Americans up to the threat of disinformation. We...
How Rural America Is Reaping Economic Development Benefits from the Growth of Renewables
Despite a turbulent start to the 2020s, an important and positive message for rural America is emerging in the decade...
Biden Aims to Replace Federal Auto Fleet With Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
New York Becomes The First State To Divest From Oil And Gas
New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming...
Trump Rushes to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections
Six days after President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified food safety groups...
Cleantech Creates Higher Paying Jobs — Millions Of Them
One of the greatest side benefits of climate action is that it creates a lot of jobs. Not only that...
ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Science Deniers
After decades of public denial, ExxonMobil now acknowledges that “the risk of climate change is real” and says it is “committed to...
Leaked Docs From Inside ‘Omnicidal’ ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions
New reporting Monday based on leaked internal documents reveals ExxonMobil has been planning to notably increase annual carbon dioxide emissions—a revelation that...
Mike Pence Lied BIG LEAGUE About Trump’s Environmental Record
I just watched most of the US vice presidential debate. There were several gigantic lies that Vice President Mike Pence...
Dirty Louisiana Politicians Get Paid To Push Pipeline Through Black & Indigenous Communities
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
‘Delay, Distract, and Derail’: New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Avoid Regulation
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Faced With Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
Donald Trump is a Threat to the Planet
President Trump is a threat not just to America, but to the planet. I’m not talking about his radicalization of...
Big oil is lobbying the Trump administration to push plastic waste across Africa
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies, including Shell, Exxon, Total, DuPont and Dow, has been pushing the Trump...
A Majority Of People In The US Say The Federal Gov’t Should Do More About Climate
The US federal government should be doing a whole lot more to reduce the impacts of climate change. Those are the findings...
New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
‘For a Greener Future’: Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
‘Resounding’ Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
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...
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...
