Category Archives: Environment

New IPCC Report Highlights Urgency of Climate Change Impacts

IPCC: Missing Paris targets would harm human health and biodiversity worldwide, and risk irreversible losses sooner than previously thought.

Europe’s Sustainable Taxonomy Is a Sideshow

The EU taxonomy grossly simplifies a complex and dynamic world. It might help prevent green-washing but other tools are needed to guide green investment.

What the Latest Science Says About Antarctica and Sea-Level Rise

Why Antarctica is a huge wild card in the progress of sea level rises.

Shareholder Activism: Icahn Targets McDonald’s Pig Pens

Carl Icahn seeks to force McDonald’s 2012 pledge to cease to use gestation crate to confine pregnant pigs within a decade.

U.S. Shale Production Hindered By Sand Supply Crunch

Sand is back as a looming problem for shale operators.

An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR and Shale Greenwashing

FTI Consulting 2015 slides tout “discrediting” science, “debunking” documentaries, and hype its fracking industry project Energy In Depth

Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms

Why big farms are often not better.

Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer

Gail Tverberg throws cold water on green energy optimism.

NYT Recognizes “That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think”

Could a well-structured class action lawsuit either prod fashion companies to build verifiable organic cotton supply chains, or abandon their claims that they’re selling organic cotton?

Update: Supreme Court to Weigh EPA Authority on Greenhouse Pollutants

Additional briefs shed light on possible outcomes of major Supreme Court case scheduled for oral arguments this month.

Resource Nationalism on Rise in Latin America, As Fever for “White Gold,” aka Lithium, Grips the World

Countries in the region are taking greater control of the revenues generated by the minerals and hydrocarbons produced within their borders, in particular when it comes to lithium.

Europe’s Nuclear Fusion Race Is Going Private

Fusion fever has hopped across the pond and is seriously gaining traction among private enterprises in Europe.

Ocean Summit Launches Today in France

The Ocean Summit launches today in France, a long overdue effort to grapple with marine regulatory issues, including climate change and plastics pollution.

Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls

Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?

The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation

At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.