by Common Dreams | Nov 9, 2022 | Climate & Environment
Emphasizing that mitigating the climate emergency and planetary heating is within policymakers’ power, a new draft federal report released Monday outlined the impacts the crisis has had on U.S. communities so far and warned that extreme weather, wildfires, and...
by Colorado Newsline | Oct 23, 2022 | Climate & Environment
Across the country, states are inking agreements with neighbors or striking out on their own to pursue billions in federal funding to set up “hydrogen hubs,” clustered centers for production, storage and use of the gas that many see as a crucial piece of the puzzle...
by Common Dreams | Oct 19, 2022 | Climate & Environment
New Jersey on Tuesday sued five oil and gas companies and a leading fossil fuel lobby group for knowingly lying to the public about the existence of climate change and the role their products play in exacerbating human-caused global heating. The lawsuit, filed in New...
by The Conversation | Oct 7, 2022 | Climate & Environment
A new barrier to climate action is opening up in an obscure and secretive part of international trade law, which fossil fuel investors are using to sue countries if policy decisions go against them. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to...
by The New Lede | Oct 4, 2022 | Climate & Environment
In July, a sailing vessel called Kwai docked in Sausalito carrying a sickening cargo: 96 tons of plastic garbage and other trash recovered from the Pacific Ocean during a 45-day voyage from Honolulu. Before arriving in California, the Kwai had sailed through the Great...
by Marty Kassowitz | Oct 3, 2022 | Climate & Environment
Thirty minutes inland from devastated Fort Meyers, Florida is the planned community of Babcock Ranch. The term “planned community” already sounds kind of boring, but that planning turned out to be a major survival factor last week when Hurricane Ian came...