Tag: environment

A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.

Nestlé subsidiary, Poland Spring, now has control over a small town's groundwater for the next several decades.

A new EPA rule limits methane emissions from new oil and gas infrastructure and requires operators to submit to semi-annual or quarterly monitoring, depending on the type of operation.

Beekeepers recently reported that this last year was the highest annual loss of bee colonies in the past six years.

“This 21st Century U.S. government’s achievements are virtually non-existent while its failures are monumental. That’s why I believe that historians of the future will conclude that it is the worst in American history.”

Some of the sunniest states in the U.S. are not taking initiative and are not creating policies in an effort to better the environment.

Scientist and Christian Katherine Hayhoe shares how she wins over those who doubt climate change is happening — by not mentioning climate science.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation just denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a 124-mile fracked gas pipeline.

“We currently see both the EPA and the Obama administration trying to pursue policies that are aimed at the average Americans. The radical environmentalists do not manage to reach people and cannot convince US citizens about the severity of environmental problems.”

Bernie Sanders focuses on the environmental issue of fracking this week while campaigning in New York and Pennsylvania.