Environment

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.

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?

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

Unfortunately, on a planet they are helping to overheat in a remarkable fashion, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Saudi Arabia have largely taken steps toward ever more carbon dioxide emissions.

To slow the factors driving climate migration and avoid these worst-case outcomes, the report recommends a series of steps world leaders can take.

Pablo Solón once sat at the same table as the world leaders gathered in Paris to hammer out a U.N. agreement on global warming. Now he stands on the outside.

On a recent trip to Alaska, President Obama was greeted by thousands of protesters asking him to reverse his decision on Shell and stop all exploratory drilling in the Arctic. But how will he respond?