Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Tag: environment

How a tribal rights lawyer is winning back the rights of...

Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.

Not a green bone in their white bodies

Connecting anti-immigrant and racist ideas via population growth to environmental degradation is nothing new.

Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have...

ExxonMobil, the last remaining proponent of green algae biofuel, ends research.

DOE approves LNG exports from Alaska project

The $38.7 billion infrastructure project, if it gets the necessary investments and all required permits, will be operational by 2030.

The world’s coffee shops have emerged as plant milk’s front line

Milk made from plants is entering the public consciousness (and stomachs) in coffee shops across the globe.

California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging

The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.

US Justice Department tells Supreme Court to reject Big Oil petition...

The Justice Department is siding with communities in Colorado and across the U.S. that are fighting to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate lies.

Study finds global coffee production at risk from climate change

“During any given year, climate hazards such as heatwaves, droughts, frosts and floods can each affect coffee yield.”

Top US law schools accused of creating a student ‘pipeline’ into...

The LSCA is now calling out top-ranked law schools for their role in propping up the fossil fuel industry through what the report refers to as a “fossil fuel lawyer pipeline.”

5 surprising things that could be preventing your backyard from serving...

Prevent your backyard from being an “ecological trap” by taking these key actions to protect wildlife.

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The world’s four legacy empires going down

In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.

Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for vigilante violence

The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.

Trump’s pick to lead federal housing agency has opposed efforts to aid the poor

Such views would seemingly place Turner at odds with the core work of HUD, a sprawling federal agency that serves as a backstop against homelessness for millions of the nation’s poor, elderly and disabled.

It was the rage of the age

Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?