How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.
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Lawmakers Are Firing Back At Fossil Fuel Divestors
Red state retaliation! Fossil fuel states will take business away from firms that divest from energy producers.
Read more...Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?
Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June.
Read more...Real American Men and the Liberal War on Meat
Kill me now. Meat has become a new front in the culture wars.
Read more...Beavers, the Landscape, Carbon, Methane, and Climate Change
Beavers engineer the landscape to create carbon sinks and methane sources. What to do?
Read more...Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem
The Khamir NGO demonstrates that kala cotton can be grown without copious use of water, pesticides, and chemical fesrtilizers.
Read more...Bees and Bluebells: Celebrating World Bee Day By Encouraging Pollinators in My Garden
Aorld Bee Day provided the chance to think about what plants to add to my garden to encorage bees to visit.
Read more...Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?
Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.
Read more...Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives
The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.
Read more...Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports
Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?
Read more...Can We Have Both Industrial Civilization and a Habitable Planet?
Continuing the debate about what needs to be done if there is any hope of saving the planet…for something resembling modern society.
Read more...9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability
The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.
Read more...New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.
Read more...New Adventures in Gardening: Urban Composting
The next step in my adventures in gardening – composting – to feed my plants and reduce the waste I dump into NYC’s collection system.
Read more...Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis
As drought persists throughout the Western United States, federal agencies predict a tough, long fire year lies ahead.
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