G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
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After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
Read more...In First 6 Months Under Trump, Polluters Already Paying Lower Fines to EPA
EPA enforcement of federal clean air and clean water laws drops off, yielding lower fines; trend looks only likely to accelerate.
Read more...New Jersey Food Waste Law Will Help Feed Hungry, And Mitigate Climate Change
NJ law aims to reduce food waste and help feed hungry. State climate change policies are key response in the absence of federal action.
Read more...Cobalt Production as the Hidden Choke Point on Mass Conversion to Electric Vehicles
Going from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is likely to hit a cobalt road block.
Read more...Telling the Climate Truth
What must be done to alleviate the coming climate change catastrophe.
Read more...Plastic Free July: What YOU Can Do to Reduce Plastics Waste
With a world drowning in plastics, there are steps you can take to reduce your consumption of single-use plastics.
Read more...Rising from the Ashes, a Buffalo Suburb Ends its Dependence on Coal
Environmental, labour, and community efforts meshed in working-class Tonawanda to create plan for future after its coal-fired plant closed.
Read more...Government’s Brexit Repeal Bill ‘Power Grab’ Threatens UK Environment Regulations
Brexit will require massive, rushed conforming changes to UK environmental law. Transparency will suffer, with dodgy backroom deals likely.
Read more...Has Keystone XL Become Obsolete?
New troubles for Keystone XL.
Read more...Canada Undermines Targets for Protecting Oceans by Increasing Oil Exploration
Sabine Jessen discusses Trudeau’s plans to increase offshore oil exploration that undermine oceans protection commitments Canada has made.
Read more...EPA, Agencies to Rescind Clean Water Rule
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announces plans to rescind the Clean Water Rule, bowing to developers and other business interests.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Finding the Greater Fool — The Elite Logic Behind “Going Over the Climate Cliff”
How the Secena Effect explains climate change apathy among the elite.
Read more...West Coast on an Acidification Trip; Fishing Industry in Peril
Ocean acidification produced by global warming is bleaching coral reefs and threatening ocean life, yet gets little media coverage.
Read more...Trump’s America Last
Why Trump’s rejection of the Paris Accord is a prescription for American non-competitiveness.
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