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Climate justice advocates at the UN climate summit this week are focusing their frustration over global climate inaction into one highly technical debate: What role should carbon markets play in …
Climate Justice Groups Protest Use of Carbon Markets for Meeting Paris Goals Read More
Hunger striker Eric Tien says they will not eat until Nancy Pelosi agrees to a one hour public meeting to publicly acknowledge that we are in a climate emergency https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=cLtWUFYRkac&feature=emb_logo
Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strike in its 10th Day Read More
VARNEY, West Virginia — Pigeon Creek flows through a narrow mountain hollow along a string of coal mining communities, its water trickling under the reds and yellows of the changing …
Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate Risk: Flooding Read More
Four years ago, “fear of mass shootings” did not even appear on the American Psychological Association’s annual survey of things that stress out Americans. Now, however, it has become the …
Fear of Mass Shootings Strains America’s Psyche, Survey Finds Read More
Cities are still working through early challenges, but they see health and climate benefits ahead. In Chicago, two buses save the city $24,000 a year in fuel costs. In the …
U.S. Electric Bus Demand Outpaces Production as Cities Add to Their Fleets Read More
Democrats seized control of the Virginia legislature in this week’s election, likely smoothing a path toward full participation in a regional carbon-trading market and giving the state a chance to …
Voters Flip Virginia’s Legislature, Clearing Way for Climate and Clean Energy Policies Read More
The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports. The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of …
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota Read More
Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson took the witness stand Wednesday in the company’s climate fraud trial and gave the clearest defense yet for his former employer. Tillerson denied that …
Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk Read More
From the publisher: A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party—while …
Goliath by Matt Stoller Read More
Beijing says Trump broke pledge by threatening to tax $300bn worth of goods BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — China on Thursday vowed to counter the latest U.S. tariffs on $300 billion of …
China vows to take countermeasures to latest US tariffs Read More