A dozen people put their bodies on the line today in a last-resort protest to stop a major gas storage expansion project that has been authorized to begin construction tomorrow on the shore of Seneca Lake, the largest of New York’s Finger Lakes. The protesters formed a human blockade in front of the Texas-based Crestwood Midstream company gate, shutting […]
A West Virginia lab technician pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of faking water sample quality tests so that coal mining companies could be guaranteed clean reports to submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), reports the Charleston Gazette. Without accurate monitoring, it’s impossible to […]
Evidence continues to pour in that policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions not only aren’t detrimental to economic growth but in fact can fuel it. A new study by World Resources Institute, Seeing Is Believing: Creating a New Climate Economy in the United States, adds compelling evidence by providing examples of areas where government policies […]
After an intense three-month campaign by Greenpeace that included the most viral video in its history, LEGO announced that it is ending its partnership with Shell Oil Company. “It’s a massive victory for the million people globally who called on LEGO to stop helping Shell look like a responsible and caring company rather than a […]
On Saturday more than 20,000 people took to the streets in more than 30 countries across the globe to celebrate the Arctic and demand protection for this unique region of the world. “Ice Ride,” a global day of action to save the Arctic, is a call for the creation of a protected sanctuary around the North Pole to save marine […]
Brushing aside warnings of dangerous geological risk, federal regulators say construction can start immediately on a methane gas storage project next to Seneca Lake that has galvanized opposition from wine and tourism businesses across the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. Vineyards in the Seneca Lake. Photo credie: Wikipedia The Sept. 30 decision by the Federal Energy […]
U.S. power plants are an outsized contributor to the world’s carbon pollution, a new report released by Environment America Research & Policy Center and the Frontier Group says. It found that in 2012, they added more climate change-causing carbon to the environment than the entire economies of any nation other than China. The report, “America’s Dirtiest […]
An international group of 160 environmental leaders issued a challenge this morning to those who hold some significant pursestrings. They urged foundations and other charitable givers with combined holdings to divest from fossil fuels and free up billions of dollars to invest in clean energy. They asked the foundations and givers to invest in clean […]
I have to write you a very deeply personal letter right now and I hope it is met with an open mind. I have a secret to confess. Well, it’s actually not a secret at all, it’s a very easy thing to find out if you just Google me, but I am not sure that […]
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