Category Archives: Environment

Trump Seeks to Revoke California Emissions Waiver

Trump looks to rollback California’s 1970 waiver under the Clean Air Act, which allowed the state to set emissions standards.

Germany to Ban Use of Glyphosate By End 2023

Germany moves to reduce significantly the use of glyphosate – and ban it outright, starting in 2023.

FabScrap Tackles Fashion Waste

FabScrap works with fashion companies to reuse and recycle fashion scraps, thereby mitigating the notorious waste in the fashion industry.

UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder

Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.

As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?

Devastating footage of Dorian damage in the Bahamas: when will the world take meaningful action to arrest climate change?

Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil

While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.

Flood the Market

Buyouts can save Houston’s flood-soaked homeowners — if they can get one. Instead, ordinary homeowners fail to qualify, and real estate speculators make out.

Waste Watch: Big Fashion Embraces Sustainability? Ha!

Thirty-two fashion companies present the Fashion Pact to G7; the feeble pledges raise the question: why bother?

The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate

This Real News Network interview with Amazon Watch’s Christian Poirier discusses Bolsonaro’s policies that prioritize agribusiness over people – especially indigenous people.

It’s Raining Plastic, From the Pyrenees to the Rockies to the Arctic

On the extent of plastic exposure in the form of microplastics.

Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?

Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.