The number of checks on environmental standards carried out by UK government agencies has plummeted in recent years, leading to an “enforcement gap”, a new report warns...
Guest | August 24, 2019
By Guest • Saturday, August 24, 2019 - 05:25
Guest | August 22, 2019
By Guest • Thursday, August 22, 2019 - 17:42
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.
Calling the global climate crisis both the greatest threat facing the United States and the greatest opportunity for transformative change, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday unveiled a comprehensive Green New Deal proposal that would transition the U.S. economy to 100 percent renewable energy and create 20 million well-paying union jobs over a decade.
Guest | August 19, 2019
By Guest • Monday, August 19, 2019 - 01:52
By Tim Radford for Climate News Network
European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause.
Other historic changes — the so-called Medieval Warm Period and then the “Little Ice Age” that marked the 17th to the 19th centuries — were not global. The only period in which the world’s climate has changed, everywhere and at the same time, is right now.
Guest | August 16, 2019
By Guest • Friday, August 16, 2019 - 02:05
By Paul Brown for the Climate News Network
The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered — because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with electric vehicles, are irresistible, a French bank says.
BNP Paribas Asset Management calculates that oil majors like Exxon, BP and Shell will have to produce petrol from oil at $10 a barrel (the current price is $58) to compete with electricity on price, while for diesel, it says, oil can cost no more than $19 a barrel.
Guest | August 13, 2019
By Guest • Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 11:30
The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe where most major insurers have broken with coal.
U.S. firms have been a little slower to move, but Chubb announced a divestment policy in July, and Liberty has confirmed it will not insure Australia’s Adani project.
Other big firms such as America’s AIG are coming under increasing pressure.
Guest | August 5, 2019
By Guest • Monday, August 5, 2019 - 12:55
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator.
More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature.
Guest | July 26, 2019
By Guest • Friday, July 26, 2019 - 15:51
By Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch. Republished with permission from EcoWatch.
Four automakers from three different continents have struck a deal with California and agreed to adhere to the state's stricter emissions standards, undercutting one of the Trump administration's environmental regulatory rollbacks, according to The New York Times.
Guest | July 24, 2019
By Guest • Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 15:04
By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams, CC BY-SA 3.0.
A new lawsuit seeks to kill a recent Trump administration rule that critics say deals a blow to transparency by giving the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to shoot down public information requests.
The new rule — put in place without public input — was published on the Federal Register June 26 and goes into effect July 26.
Guest | July 20, 2019
By Guest • Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 07:02
By Julie Conley, originally published on Common Dreams
A national conservation group revealed Wednesday that President Donald Trump's drilling leases on public lands could lead to the release of more carbon emissions than the European Union contributes in an entire year.
Guest | July 2, 2019
By Guest • Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - 23:52
By Rob Galbraith. Originally posted on Eyes on the Ties, the online news site of Public Accountability Initiative and LittleSis.
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental group with close ties to the corporate community, has taken a friendly approach to the explosion of the natural gas industry in the United States. In the early years of the fracking boom, EDF touted natural gas as a “bridge fuel” toward renewable energy. The organization helped to promote industry-funded misinformation by signing off on sham studies — for example from the University of Texas and the State University of New York at Buffalo — that claimed fracking was safe, but were fatally marred by basic errors in arithmetic and undisclosed conflicts of interest.
