Saturday, September 7, 2024

EPA finalizes updates to National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the final rule "will prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 cases of asthma symptoms per year."

Will the US Catholic Church Divest from Fossil Fuels and Buy Solar Panels Instead?...

The pope is trying to get the word out to U.S. Catholics to do something practical about climate change. Will Pope Francis help move all Americans toward a greener and less dangerous future?

Facing their failure to meet 2020 biodiversity targets, world leaders pledge action & funds

Amid calls from the U.N. Chief to stop treating the earth ‘as if we have a spare one,’ French President Emmanuel Macron led world leaders in commitments to protect ecosystems at the One Planet Summit

BREAKING: President Obama Rejects Keystone XL

It is a huge day for environmental activism. The years of tireless hard work and activism against the controversial Keystone XL pipeline have paid off. President Obama has rejected the pipeline once and for all.

France moves to ban short-haul flights

This is not the first time that climate measures and aviation bailouts have coincided in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

TransCanada’s Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with State Department...

Though the Mexican government publicly denied the U.S. had any involvement in helping to usher in privatization of Mexico's energy sector, it appears the State Department has tracked gas pipeline developments in Mexico closely.

VIDEO: As GOP Candidates Question Climate Change, Texas and Oklahoma Hit by Devastating Floods...

With severe storms leave extensive damage and at least 23 people dead in Texas and Oklahoma, Republicans presidential candidates continue to question climate change. Are these politicians crazy or just denying the truth?

Carbon capture will extend oil production by 84 years, industry study finds

Because of carbon capture and storage, a technology widely touted by the oil and gas industry and some political leaders as a key solution for climate change, the field could still be producing 1.5 million barrels of oil annually by the year 2100.

In ‘critical and totally doable first step,’ EPA proposes phasedown of climate super-pollutants

With this rule to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, “EPA is taking another significant step under President Biden’s ambitious agenda to address the climate crisis,” said the agency’s administrator.

Great apes could lose 94% of African home due to climate crisis and other...

“As climate change forces the different types of vegetation to essentially shift uphill, it means that all animals that depend on particular habitat types will be forced to move uphill or become locally extinct.”