Puerto Rico’s New Power Struggle: Privatization
Puerto Rico announces plans to privatise its public utility, even though many residents still lack power 4 months after Hurricane Maria.
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections for Migratory Birds, Drawing Bipartisan Condemnation
Team Trump cuts environmental protections yet again, this time at the expense of migratory birds.
Read more...Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit
On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...EU Makes Limited Move on Plastics: Too Little, Too Late?
EU requires recycling plastics packaging by 2030, reducing single-use plastics, and restricting microplastics. Too little, too late?
Read more...Oil and Gas Company Sues Environmental Activist for Libel over Facebook Comments
War on dissent: oil and gas company plays legal hardball, suing environmental activist for libel for his Facebook comments.
Read more...Climate Change Mitigation Pays Off $6 for Every $1 Invested…As Funds Targeted for Cuts
Why more isn’t being done on the climate change mitigation front.
Read more...Court Orders Nonprofit Law Firm to Pay $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company for Defending Local Fracking Waste Ban
Courts tend to uphold federal and state laws that preempt cities and municipalities from enacting local bans on practices such as fracking.
Read more...Why Urban Farming Is Key in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change
How urban farming can help alleviate food stress and buffer climate pressures.
Read more...Trump’s Gift to the Climate Movement
How Trump’s climate change denialism helps activists.
Read more...Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Even China is Buying U.S. LNG
Read more...Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border
Mexico is now facing its own Standing Rock-like moment as the Yaqui Tribe challenges Sempra Energy’s Agua Prieta pipeline between Arizona and the Mexican state of Senora.
Read more...Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...Apple Battery Debacle: Yet Another Reason to Support a Right to Repair
The Apple iPhone battery debacle lends support to the right to repair movement, as well as benefits services such as iFixit.
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