The Most Dangerous Climate Argument Today Isn’t Denial, It’s Delay
By Dr. Joakim Kulin and Dr. Ekaterina Rhodes , DeSmog. Belief in climate change is rising, but action stalls. New research reveals how subtle narratives are slowing policy – and…
AMERICA’S SILENT POISON: KIDS EXPOSED TO LEAD — AND MANY ARE NEVER EVEN TESTED
For more than a century, industry blanketed parts of Omaha with toxic lead—an invisible residue that still lingers in soil, homes, and bodies. Now, as new reporting from ProPublica makes…
A Billion-Dollar Company Poisoned Their Town, Then Moved on. Now People are Dying.
Maximillian Alvarez for TRNN Three years ago, on Feb. 3, 2023, the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history—took place in the…
How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws
By Katie Surma for Inside Climate News In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leaders to…
SCOTUS Tariff Ruling to Ease Solar Prices, as even GOP Voters Boost Sun Power
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Although President Trump calls solar and wind power a “scam,” falsely alleges that they drive up electricity costs (the opposite is true), and has…
EPA No Longer Considering Lives Saved in Pollution Rules, Only Cost to Business
The policy change says the “quiet part out loud,” one environmental advocate said.
The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape
When a new orangutan species was found near a Chinese-owned hydrodam in Indonesia, scientists and advocates launched a campaign to block the project. Then some who spoke against it lost…
‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community
Meta is financing the data center using accounting tricks that the Wall Street Journal reports appear “too good to be true.”
Israel’s Untold Environmental Genocide
Tel Aviv’s 21st century Holocaust has “significantly degraded water infrastructure leading to severely limited, low-quality water supply to the population.”
Oil and Gas Companies Used Banned Toxic Chemicals Near the Rocky Mountains
One of the prohibited substances can cause cancer; new state law forced operators to identify chemicals.
New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry
Economist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism.
An $18M Grant Would Have Drastically Reduced Food Waste. Then the EPA Cut It.
The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.
Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change
Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. More such moves are coming, NOAA…
The Verdict Against Greenpeace Is an Attack on Us All
It is critical for Greenpeace and its allies to lean into the verdict and issue a call to action to the entire environmental movement and broader civil society organizations.
Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm Over Protests
The Texas-based pipeline company accused Greenpeace of orchestrating criminal behavior by training and providing funds to the Indigenous-led protests at Standing Rock.