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By Brett Wilkins, Commonย Dreams Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as...
An 18-month inquiry led by the province of Alberta into environmental groups opposed to Canadian tar sands is nearing completion, but a Canadian NGO wants the CA$3.5 million inquiry disbanded, alle...
โ€œIt took courage for Senator Cassidy to vote against Trump,โ€ Sharon Lavigne, the founder of the faith-based grassroots organization RISE St. James, said about the Louisiana Republican after the imp...
The French state has been found guilty of climate inaction in what campaigners have dubbed โ€œthe case of the centuryโ€.  Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to...
The contested pipeline's cancelation cements a legacy of climate activism, but many other pipelines in the works may prove more important for industry.
The contested pipeline's cancelation cements a legacy of climate activism, but many other pipelines in the works may prove more important for industry.
At the start of December 2020, U.N. Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres spoke at Columbia University, appearing not before a packed auditorium as in years past, but before a โ€œvirtualโ€ audience, maki...
This year โ€” with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disastersย โ€” was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. All a...
Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climateย crisis....
During a virtual event on Wednesday, December 9 hosted by the Heritage Foundationย โ€” a conservative free market think tank backed by polluters like the petrochemical Koch empireย โ€” the outgoing head ...
Today, an unusually broad coalition of environmental groups, numbering more thanย 550, called on the incoming Biden-Harris administration toย address plastic pollution alongside fossil fuels, releasi...

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onFeb 23, 2021 @ 12:32 PST

By Brett Wilkins, Commonย Dreams Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as...
onFeb 17, 2021 @ 12:43 PST

An 18-month inquiry led by the province of Alberta into environmental groups opposed to Canadian tar sands is nearing completion, but a Canadian NGO wants the CA$3.5 million inquiry disbanded, alle...
onFeb 16, 2021 @ 13:42 PST

โ€œIt took courage for Senator Cassidy to vote against Trump,โ€ Sharon Lavigne, the founder of the faith-based grassroots organization RISE St. James, said about the Louisiana Republican after the imp...
onFeb 3, 2021 @ 08:38 PST

The French state has been found guilty of climate inaction in what campaigners have dubbed โ€œthe case of the centuryโ€.  Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to...
onJan 20, 2021 @ 14:37 PST

The contested pipeline's cancelation cements a legacy of climate activism, but many other pipelines in the works may prove more important for industry.

The contested pipeline's cancelation cements a legacy of climate activism, but many other pipelines in the works may prove more important for industry.
onDec 28, 2020 @ 06:00 PST

At the start of December 2020, U.N. Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres spoke at Columbia University, appearing not before a packed auditorium as in years past, but before a โ€œvirtualโ€ audience, maki...
onDec 21, 2020 @ 13:17 PST

This year โ€” with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disastersย โ€” was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. All a...
onDec 12, 2020 @ 04:00 PST

Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climateย crisis....
onDec 9, 2020 @ 14:52 PST

During a virtual event on Wednesday, December 9 hosted by the Heritage Foundationย โ€” a conservative free market think tank backed by polluters like the petrochemical Koch empireย โ€” the outgoing head ...
onDec 8, 2020 @ 18:35 PST

Today, an unusually broad coalition of environmental groups, numbering more thanย 550, called on the incoming Biden-Harris administration toย address plastic pollution alongside fossil fuels, releasi...