The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the largest grizzly bear hunt in the lower 48 states, despite opposition from environmental groups, tribal nations and wildlife photographers, The Washington Post reported. The vote comes less than a month after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service affirmed its June 2017 decision to […]
By Katie O’Reilly You’ve heard of clean tech, but how about a clean buzz? While plenty of microbrewers, craft distillers and boutique wine-makers have in recent years made admirable strides toward greater environmental stewardship, Anheuser-Busch may well succeed in bringing the green-booze movement mainstream. Last month, the 165-year-old owner of brands including Budweiser, Corona and […]
Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey announced Friday the city’s pledge to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity for municipal facilities and operations by 2022 and citywide by 2030. Minneapolis is now the largest city in the Midwest and the 65th city to join the nation’s expanding clean energy movement, according to the Sierra Club‘s […]
By Novella Carpenter In uncertain times, a garden can feel like a sanctuary. It doesn’t matter if you have a windowsill planter, a plot in a community garden or a backyard orchard—growing your own organic fruits and vegetables is a small but tangible way to bypass Big Ag and create habitat for butterflies, bees and […]
Conservation groups on Thursday sued Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Bureau of Land Management for approving new leases to allow fracking on more than 45,000 acres in western Colorado, including within communities and within a half-mile of a K-12 public school, without analyzing or disclosing environmental and public health threats as required by federal […]
Under the guise of “transparency,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a controversial proposed rule Tuesday that actually limits the type of scientific studies and data the agency can use in crafting public health and environmental regulations. The change—long championed by conservative lawmakers, chemical manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry—would only allow […]
The scandal-plagued head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says he’s not sure whether “human activity … is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” The president has moved to pull the U.S. out of the landmark Paris climate agreement. And climate-science deniers and skeptics control Congress. But that still leaves […]
The Interior Department has launched the process of holding lease sales for oil and gas drilling in the 1.6-million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Despite decades of fierce resistance from Democrats and conservation groups, pro-drilling Republicans were able to realize their goal of opening the refuge after quietly including the measure […]
A group of 39 senators and 131 representatives signed a resolution calling for the “immediate resignation” of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator. The document represents a record number of senators to formally demand a cabinet official to step down. The resolution comes in the wake of Pruitt’s growing list of […]
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