Thursday, January 16, 2025

FOIA Request Shows Govt Lied About Lead in Water, Knowingly Poisoning Countless Children

Instead of keeping children safe, Michigan officials repeatedly lied about the safety of their drinking water even though they knew it was poisoned.

New scientist festival shuns fossil fuel sponsorship after campaign pressure

The festival’s shift from BP and Shell partnerships comes as a growing number of cultural institutions have cut ties with oil and gas companies.

Fox & Friends attacks public schools for teaching climate change and LGBTQ issues

Pete Hegseth: Parents “don't understand that even our public schools today ... have an agenda”

Rising tides, sinking hopes: Climate crisis wreaks havoc on U.S. northeast coastline

From historical landmarks to modern infrastructure: The devastating impact of record-breaking high tides in the U.S. northeast, fueled by climate change.

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

The EIA recommends “a structural reform to care for many of these problems, starting with declaring the principles of transparency and livestock traceability to be in the public interest.”

Anti-regulation law, favored by Kochs, used to sue Wisconsin Education Agency

The Dairy State is once again serving as a test case and battleground for the implementation of the Koch agenda.

This South Pacific island is home to 38 million pieces of plastic waste

13,000 new items are washing up on the island daily.

It’s not an immigrant tsunami we should fear, it’s a climate change one

It would make much more sense to take all that money that Trump wants to waste on walling off Mexico and apply it to at least pushing back the demise of America’s great coastal cities.

Global deforestation increased in 2023, report finds

If deforestation emissions were represented as a country, they’d be the fourth biggest emitter behind China, the U.S. and India.

Keeping cattle on public land is bad for people, cows, wildlife, and the planet

The U.S. beef industry is destroying the American Wild West and worsening the climate crisis.