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...
Category: Environment
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...
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...
