By Justin Worland Here are the U.S. cities with the most ozone pollution in 2015: California is well-represented on the list & in the article. 1. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA 2. Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA 3. Bakersfield, CA 4. Fresno-Madera, CA 5…. Read More ›
Average Number of Days above 95 degrees Along the coast, rising sea-levels will likely put billions of dollars of property and infrastructure at risk. Further inland, increasingly warm and dry conditions threaten the productivity of one of the richest agricultural… Read More ›
Islands are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, especially rising sea levels. So maybe it’s no surprise that Hawaii is considering legislation that would make it the first state in the U.S. to be entirely powered by renewable… Read More ›
One of the biggest banks in the Middle East and the oil-rich Gulf countries says that fossil fuels can no longer compete with solar technologies on price, and says the vast bulk of the $US48 trillion needed to meet global… Read More ›
Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, PNC Bank announced yesterday that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The shift outlined in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report means PNC Bank will effectively cease its investment in this… Read More ›
Exposed – Nebraska’s Unconstitutional Bill to Push the Keystone Pipeline – Occupy.com Originally published in Prairie Fire, June, 2013. By Kietryn Zychal Retired rancher Randy Thompson has become the face of the fight against TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. His image… Read More ›
By Nate Schweber Environmental damage from recent oil leak ranges from contaminated water supply to polluted farmland GLENDIVE, Montana — When an oil pipeline burst in July 2011 and poured 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River 200 miles… Read More ›
by Tim Radford, Climate New Network If you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails—including demands… Read More ›
By Anastasia Pantsios As Republicans get set to test their new majority in the U.S. Senate and their complete control of Congress to push through approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a new investigative report by editor Lou Dubose at the… Read More ›
A breach in a tailings pond from the open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine sent five million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) ofslurry gushing into Hazeltine Creek in B.C. That’s the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic swimming pools of waste,… Read More ›
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