ExxonMobil pays up: Energy giant forced to pay fines for pollution from old fertilizer...
ExxonMobil will pay a $6.6 million settlement, as agreed upon between the energy giant and federal agencies.
One of the world’s oldest rainforests returns to Indigenous control
The hope is that the most recent handover will provide a model for other groups in Australia's wet tropics hoping to regain control of their traditional lands.
Pushing Carbon Tax and Fracking Ban, Sanders Lays Down Gauntlet on Climate
"I hope that Secretary Clinton would join me if we are serious about climate change, about imposing a tax on carbon on the fossil fuel industry and making massive investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And by the way... I hope you’ll join me in ending fracking in the United States of America."
Children born in 2020 will see spike in climate disasters, study says
“We know very well scientifically that these extreme events are not only increasing in frequency, they’re also increasing in duration and intensity.”
Documents reveal drilling and mining interests were behind shrinking of Utah National Monuments
Yes Secretary Zinke claimed that the shrinking of the national monuments "isn’t really about oil and gas.”
Gas pipeline explosion kills 1 and injures 5
Alabama is currently in a massive drought and is vulnerable to wildfires, making these events all the more dangerous.
EPA grants bee-killing pesticide ’emergency’ approval; a ‘routine abuse of emergency exemptions’
"The EPA is routinely misusing the 'emergency' process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it's too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews."
A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
Exxon now wants to write the rules for regulating methane emissions
The current regulatory system in America does not protect the public interest.
Biden says climate crisis is an emergency, but doesn’t declare one
“Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”