The gas price hike isn’t about supply — it’s about oil companies price gouging to maximize profits and trying to shift the blame. That makes for a perfect time to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
Climate & Environment
With Joe Manchin responsible for blocking key climate provisions in Build Back Better as well as the final bill, people will find it enlightening to see just how deeply embedded he is with the coal industry.
The Insure Our Future campaign has been successfully pressuring insurance companies to stop selling coverage for fossil fuel expansion.
The push by moms to adopt electric school buses to replace 480,000 diesel buses not only has environmental benefits but helps improve the health of their children.
Our polar regions have been warming three times faster than the world as a whole, accelerating polar ice melt, ocean warming and other manifestations of the climate emergency.
Mild-mannered motorcyclist Guy Stewart Callendar connected carbon dioxide concentrations with rising temperatures and triggered a huge debate over the human role in climate change—in 1938.
The impacts of climate change and a warming future will compromise the achievement of societal goals like ending poverty and malnutrition, in the United States and abroad.
With nearly 4 in 10 U.S. residents living and working near a coastline, the magnitude of the problem of rising sea levels is easy to see. Now add in every other country with a coastline.
The Solar Canal Project is an innovative idea that puts solar panels over the top of irrigation canals—a win-win concept that couples energy generation with a reduction in evaporation of precious water resources.
World governments are spending $1.8 trillion annually on corporate welfare to support fossil fuel emissions, deforestation, water pollution and other harms to the planet.
Researchers who examined water samples from over 1,000 locations warn that "pharmaceutical pollution poses a global threat to environmental and human health."
Wind energy generation has one particular advantage: wind blows at night. So a Wind Turbine Wall concept can be even less battery dependent in the dark hours than solar.
Following a 16-year bet Republicans laid down in 2006 to block Postal EVs, DeJoy just told Biden to go screw himself: he’s going to buy fossil-fuel vehicles for 90% of the fleet instead of electric.
Wind farms can built to deliver renewable power to the grid and provide surplus power for carbon capture and storage, optimizing this massive investment for a direct climate benefit.
Economies that run entirely on fossil fuels can now be likened to zombies trudging along one lumbering dead step after another.
A journalist and her husband left San Francisco and headed east to take over the 530-acre family farm.
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