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.
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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.
Read more...Slugging It Out With a New Contender in the GMOs Debate
One of the big benefits claimed for GMOs may be false.
Read more...Climate Change: “It Depends on How We They Value Time”
Why conventional economic approaches give dangerously misguided answers when applied to climate change.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
Read more...Exxon Suffers Stinging Defeat On Shareholder Climate Resolution
Today, Trump looks set to scupper Paris Accord; yesterday, Exxon shareholders passed resolution requiring greater climate change disclosure.
Read more...Fashion Industry Dogged By Sustainability Concerns
Sustainability concerns dog the fashion industry. Millennials rank sustainability high in their buying choices.
Read more...New York Attorney General: Feds Must Address Bakken Crude Oil Bomb Trains. Feds: Maybe Later?
Both parties share credit for the continued failure to impose limits on the volatility of crude oil transported by rail.
Read more...Why Withdrawal or “Tiny” Living Isn’t a Solution to Sustainability
Tiny but isolated living may not be doing the planet as much of a favor as many like to believe.
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