Florida's political mouthpieces have been pushing natural gas for power generation, ignoring the fact that the cost has doubled. Meanwhile utilities are moving to a free and unlimited energy source—the sun.
Climate & Environment
Vermont is taking the first step in shifting some of the cost burden of responding and adapting to such climate-related disasters from taxpayers and onto the corporate polluters.
Floating solar panels already have been successfully deployed for large-scale projects in Asia.
Polling suggests that younger voters are prioritizing the environment and climate change more so than older Republicans. In a sense, it’s a harkening back to the Republican Party of the past.
Voters resoundingly endorse fossil fuel companies contributing their fair share to address a crisis they helped manufacture and still refuse to help fix.
Air pollution from coal is much more harmful than previously thought. And siting power plants upwind of major population centers only made matters worse.
If activists succeed in stopping the Hanscom Field expansion outside Boston, it will be the next “shot heard ’round the world” on a warming planet.
Scientists are turning to nonviolent climate protest, including civil disobedience, to demand that governments take bold action to snuff out the use of oil, gas, and coal.
California’s new laws mean oil and gas companies like Chevron will likely have to account for emissions from vehicles that use their gasoline, and Apple will have to account for materials that go into iPhones.
Young people are filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and government for climate change damage—and some are even winning.
The endorsement of the fossil fuel treaty proposal by Antigua and Barbuda and Timor-Leste... shows who are the real climate leaders.
Wind farm opponents claim that offshore wind is responsible for a spike in whale deaths. Experts don’t buy it, but interest groups backed by fossil fuel money are spreading false information.
The sheer quantity of chemicals being dumped into the environment is quickly growing—and we have only been seeing the beginning of the harm they are doing to us.
Extreme heat can affect every aspect of modern life, and heat waves aren’t going away. From metal failures to roadways breaking down to air conditioning loads, our warming climate is becoming a larger and larger problem.
Heatflation has doubled the price of olive oil over the past year. It would set you back around $720 to fill up the typical car’s 12-gallon tank with olive oil found on Amazon.
A NASA engineer says, "Geoengineering is not a cure. At best, it’s a Band-Aid or tourniquet; at worst, it could be a self-inflicted wound."