White House announces Earth Day initiative to protect old-growth forests on federal land
Climate experts say forests play a vital role in capturing carbon gases that contribute to climate change.
By Oliver Willis - April 22, 2022Climate experts say forests play a vital role in capturing carbon gases that contribute to climate change.
By Oliver Willis - April 22, 2022The National Environmental Policy Act ‘plays a critical role in keeping our communities and our environment healthy and safe,’ said a spokesperson for the Sierra Club.
By Oliver Willis - April 19, 2022The guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget applies to projects funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
By Oliver Willis - April 18, 2022The funds will be used to help pay for projects that will help tribes adapt to climate change, as well as pay for the management of ocean and coastal assets.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2022Last year the Biden administration called climate change a ‘systemic risk’ to ‘American families, businesses, and the economy.’
By Oliver Willis - March 21, 2022The 211-mile project would have cut through the second-largest national park in the United States.
By Oliver Willis - February 23, 2022China currently produces 80% of all rare-earth metals sold worldwide.
By Oliver Willis - February 22, 2022Pollution cleanup in the Great Lakes is expected to accelerate dramatically, thanks to a $1 billion boost from Biden’s infrastructure plan.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2022Andrónico Luksic once rented a $5.5 million home in Washington, D.C., to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while his family’s mining company lobbied the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - January 28, 2022The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.
By Oliver Willis - January 26, 2022Global temperatures are nearly 2 degrees warmer on average than they were 140 years ago, according to two U.S. science agencies.
By Associated Press - January 17, 2022Former President Donald Trump opposed wind power because wind turbines ‘kill’ birds — but climate change kills many more.
By Oliver Willis - January 14, 2022Scientists almost unanimously agree that humans contribute to climate change.
By Emily Singer - October 08, 2021Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) is seeking a federal disaster declaration after a major oil spill occurred in her congressional district.
By Oliver Willis - October 04, 2021‘We have to act and we have to act now,’ President Joe Biden said in a virtual session with global leaders Friday.
By Associated Press - September 18, 2021Rep. Young Kim received donations from several companies scrutinized for using PFAS or products containing the substances, which have been found to have contaminated public water supplies across the country.
By Oliver Willis - August 26, 2021The Colorado congresswoman reportedly failed to disclose her husband’s income from energy industry consulting previously.
By Oliver Willis - August 19, 2021Pennsylvania-based advocate Evan Endres says the new investments could be one solution to his state’s ‘complicated’ climate problem.
By Josh Israel - July 26, 2021Environmental activists have long warned Diablo Canyon is on seismic fault lines.
By Josh Israel - July 13, 2021A new letter to President Joe Biden takes aim at his Department of Justice’s defense of “anti-democratic” decisions from the Trump era.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 09, 2021The Biden administration pledged to halt wall construction. So why is the government still trying to seize land for it?
By Amy Lieu - April 23, 2021‘Used correctly PPE saves lives; disposed of incorrectly it kills marine life,’ said Cindy Zipf, the head of New Jersey’s Clean Ocean Action.
By Associated Press - April 10, 2021Up to 10 million Americans are still getting their water through lead pipes — and Republicans have refused to do anything about it.
By Donna Provencher - April 06, 2021Many of the old wells and mines are located in rural communities that have been hard-hit by the pandemic.
By Associated Press - April 03, 2021Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is rated one of the most anti-environmental lawmakers in the country.
By Oliver Willis - April 01, 2021‘Black lives matter don’t just matter when we get lynched by police. They matter when we are in our homes and our children are outside playing on our land.’
By Associated Press - March 08, 2021Mexico never paid for that wall, for one.
By Josh Israel - December 27, 2020Rep. Deb Haaland, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and Michael Regan, North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality secretary, are his latest qualified nominees.
By Amy Lieu - December 17, 2020Work on the wall has caused environmental damage that conservationists fear could be irreversible.
By Associated Press - December 17, 2020Trump’s loss in the oil drilling case on Monday is the latest in a slew of legal defeats.
By Amy Lieu - December 08, 2020