Court Slaps Down Trump Administration's Rollback of Methane Rule
San Francisco - Late yesterday, in a resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California invalidated the Trump administration's rollback of the Obama-era Waste Prevention Rule.
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U.S. District Court Slaps Down Trump Administration's Rollback of Methane Rule
Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives & Raising Climate Fears
Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears
Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup cost left to taxpayers. The day the debt-ridden Texas oil producer MDC Energy filed for bankruptcy eight months ago, a tank at one of its wells was furiously leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
Building People Power for Energy & Climate Justice
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It is already devastating millions of people, especially low-wealth communities who are least responsible for causing it. NC WARN tackles this crisis by vigorously pressing Duke Energy to join - or at least stop impeding - the clean energy revolution. Because North Carolina deserves better than pollution and cronyism.
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels & Nuclear
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear
Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin.
A Growing Campaign of Huge investment Portfolios Divesting From Fossil Fuels
National Trust to divest £1bn portfolio from fossil fuels
The National Trust is divesting its £1bn portfolio from fossil fuels in an attempt to help tackle the escalating climate crisis. The organisation, which looks after 780 miles (1,250km) of coastline, 248,000 hectares (612,000 acres) of land and more than 500 historic houses, castles, monuments and parks, said it would withdraw the vast majority of its investments from fossil fuels within 12 months, and the entirety within three years.
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund
What You Need to Know About Organic Broadleaf Weed Control
What You Need to Know About Organic Broadleaf Weed Control
If you want a chemical-free landscape and also want to defeat lawn weeds, the best defense is prevention. But weed prevention can take some time and, on occasion, you may need herbicides. Organic herbicides are a viable option for weed removal today, with more than 30 on the U.S. market.
World Expected to Hit 2 Degrees Warming Within 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking
World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal. In a sobering lecture released this month, a member of that team, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, outlined more precisely the role U.S.
Does This Signal Bad News for Extending the Life of Fossil Fuels to the Detriment of the Environment?
Oil Boom Gives the U.S. a New Edge in Energy and Diplomacy
This year, the United States is expected to surpass Saudi Arabia and to rival Russia as the world's leader, with record output of over 10 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency.
NASA Just Made a Stunning Discovery About How Fracking Fuels Global Warming
NASA just made a stunning discovery about how fracking fuels global warming
A new NASA study is one final nail in the coffin of the myth that natural gas is a climate solution, or a "bridge" from the dirtiest fossil fuels to low-carbon fuels like solar and wind.
Most Dire Climate Change Predictions, Warns New Study, Are Also the Most Accurate
Most Dire Climate Change Predictions, Warns New Study, Are Also the Most Accurate
Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than has previously been predicted, according to a new study which suggests that the most extreme estimates of the effects of global warming are likelier than more optimistic predictions.
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice | BioScience | Oxford Academic
© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com...Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" (see supplemental file S1).
Rethinking Humans' Relationship to Nature
Is culture missing from conservation? Scientists take cues from indigenous peoples.
When you hear the word "ecosystem," what do you imagine? Maybe you picture a grizzly bear pawing at salmon breaching a frigid stream, or a kaleidoscopic seascape of fish and coral. But you may have missed one critical element of the natural world: humans.
NAACP: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Will Harm Poor People of Color Most
NAACP | Fumes Across the Fence-Line
that so many African Americans live near oil gas development. Historically, polluting facilities have often been built in or near African American communities. Each year, the oil and gas industry recklessly dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants into our air, disproportionately impacting the health of African American communities across the country.
This Bodes Badly....
Fossil fuel emissions will reach an all-time high in 2017, scientists say - dashing hopes of progress
Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise again in 2017, climate scientists reported Monday, a troubling development for the environment and a major disappointment for those who had hoped emissions of the climate change-causing gas had at last peaked.
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
The White House put out a statement Friday that seemed to undercut the high level of confidence of the report's findings. "The climate has changed and is always changing," Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, said in the statement.
The Coming Storm of Climate Change
The Coming Storm of Climate Change
Hurricanes, droughts, and other extreme weather raise the question: Was that related to global warming? This short video looks at what scientists call climate attribution studies, which gauge how big an influence humanity may have had on weather. Hint: a lot. (Source: Bloomberg)
Natural Gas Building Boom Fuels Climate Worries & Enrages Landowners
Natural Gas Building Boom Fuels Climate Worries, Enrages Landowners
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people's yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they'd spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction.
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