Environment

“While no known municipal treatment plants currently accept fracking waste, the option could have become more attractive to drillers as standards tightened on other waste disposal methods.”

After nearby farms began spraying insecticides on their GMO crops, 37 million bees died instantly at one farm as a result.

Human activities such as climate change, deforestation and wildlife trafficking could drive more species off the planet.

On the issue of fracking for shale oil and gas, documents from 2011 obtained under Oklahoma's Open Records Act demonstrate that the network saw itself as a promoter of both the controversial drilling method and natural gas vehicles.

An environmental watchdog claims the EPA is involved in a cover-up holding back information about the oil and gas industry.

From Cornel West to Bill McKibben, Sanders picks some heavy-hitting social movement leaders for the Democratic National Committee.

The federal government is trying to ban all sales of items containing African elephant ivory within the U.S.

“Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity and it is already causing devastating harm. Extreme weather disasters like hurricanes will devastate communities and cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars.”

With so much clean power available, the price of solar has cost absolutely nothing for certain regions in recent months.

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.