President Donald Trump has approved the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline, two controversial projects that inspired widespread opposition during Barack Obama’s presidency.
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The Keystone XL pipeline was originally proposed by the TransCanada Corporation...
To me, polar bears are one of the most majestic and awesome of all the animals to be found on this Earth. But in the Arctic, polar bears face a grim future due to climate change....
Finally! A judge is ordering an environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This leaves several questions. The biggest one is whether the pipeline will remain open until the case is solved. Here are some...
Be Afraid.
Wow. Republicans are hell bent on scaring Americans to pieces. The guy in the White House keeps warning us that dangerous brown people are pouring over the Mexican border to get us. He reminds...
When we talk about the government working to combat climate change, it's often assumed that big business will be against any kind of regulation. The conservative Republican viewpoint is usually that any policy that is...
Last week, the environment took yet another hit from President Donald Trump and his administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the rusty patched bumble bee would not start receiving federal protection on...
You gotta give it to the idiots at Fox News: Once they decide on the company line on any issue or policy, they will not deviate from that position come hell or high water. It's...
It's been amply established that "drain the swamp" is yet another massive swindle from Donald Trump. His administration is a virtual who's who of lobbyists and corporate titans.
But the latest Trump appointee in the spotlight...
Last Friday's defeat of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) - Republicans' supposed "replacement" for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - was a decisive victory for progressive activism. All over the country, millions of people...
How many more catastrophic tipping points are we going to surpass?
How much worse does the weather have to get before we wake up to the destruction we are inflicting on the environment?
Even a half-degree temperature...
Tesla has begun taking orders for its new solar roof system – and its low cost could revolutionize the home solar industry.
When viewed from the street, Tesla’s solar tiles look like regular asphalt, terracotta, or...
There’s been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a pangolin?
Was it...
Let’s begin with a few facts. Water is wet; the sun rises in the east and sets in the west; you shouldn’t wear white after Labor Day; and man-made climate change is not a myth.
Now, let’s...
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...
When the world shut down last year for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, something happened to the air.
It got cleaner.
According to Global Carbon Project researchers, carbon emissions dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 due to reduced...
