It was discovered on Wednesday, during a preliminary restraining order hearing against The Army Corp of Engineers, that Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline in North Dakota, may be guilty of construction on...
Even though he steadfastly maintains that climate change isn't real, President Trump is now promising that he can take care of a major side-effect of global warming.
During an appearance in North Dakota on Wednesday, which...
I'm sure you've heard that old expression, "Nero fiddled while Rome burned." We now know this is more than likely not true, but there is metaphorical fiddling taking place as we do nothing to combat...
"Untold suffering."
Is that dire enough?
It's a warning 11,000 scientists from 153 countries pose humanity faces unless it effects major societal transformations.
That warning published in the journal BioScience goes on to explain:
“We declare clearly and unequivocally...
Media Matters for America has done it again. They decided to make a timeless video compilation of several times the clowns over at Fox News have been owned on TV. This of course led to one of...
According to Donald Trump and other Republicans, the Keystone XL pipeline is absolutely necessary if the United States plans to become energy independent. But a Nebraska farmer completely wrecked that argument in an interview with...
Rick Perry has had some really cringe-worthy moments in his political career. And here's another! In an interview on CNBC on Monday he denied that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause of climate...
President Obama described an apocalyptic image of the world, if carbon emissions are left unchecked.
"If we were to abandon our course of action, if we stop trying to build a clean-energy economy and reduce carbon...
We're all familiar with the rhetoric surrounding China's booming economy: massive human rights violations, volatile working conditions, and undoubtedly the worst pollution epidemic in the world. Yet very few of us can actually visualize...
We've seen some pretty callous and tone-deaf behavior from Michigan state officials since we learned that the water in Flint is so contaminated, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, even filters aren't enough to make...
Jeb Bush, apparently seeking to change the subject from his disastrous flip-flops on the Iraq War, has now decided that he'll wade into the matter of climate change. Unfortunately for him, however, what he said...
When it comes to acknowledging the human impact on climate change or even that climate change exists there have been many proclaimed climate change deniers. Quite often these deniers are conservative Republicans, so there is good news...
It’s no surprise that if everyone in America recycled, the country would be a lot cleaner. But recycling offers significant opportunities for economic growth, too. A recent feature in USA Today underscores how recycling can...
The House of Representatives has approved a joint resolution that invites Alaskan hunters to engage in unimaginable acts of barbarism.
House joint resolution 69, introduced by Alaska’s Republican Rep. Don Young, overturns a federal rule written by...
In his first act of signed legislation, President Donald Trump has eliminated anti-corruption rules for energy companies. Trump repealed regulations that were placed on oil and gas companies by President Barack Obama back in 2010.
Repealing...
One week ago, more than 4,500 climate strikes rallied across 150 countries ahead of this week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit for the purpose of holding lawmakers accountable for aggressive action on climate change's imminent threat to...
Some of the circumstances President-elect Joe Biden will be inheriting from the Trump administration are not unprecedented.
We weathered an influenza pandemic a century ago.
We have dealt with collapsing economies.
Immigration has always been a political football.
Income...
In an interview with the Texas Tribune, Ted Cruz had the audacity to compare himself to Galileo and equate climate-change believers to those who believed the earth was flat. The idea would be laughable if...
On Friday, President Barack Obama expanded the largest ecologically protected space in in Hawaii. It now encompasses 500,000 square miles.
This quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea (pronounced "Papa-ha-now-moh-koo-ah-kay-ah") Marine National Monument. It is located in the...
Just once we would like to see President Donald Trump get something right, even if by accident. After all, he is President of the United States and is supposed to represent us on the world...
