This Ironic World: Does Climate Hope Encourage Climate Inaction?
Positive climate change stories give us hope. Does that hope spur indifference?
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Plastic Watch: New UN Treaty Could Spur More Plastic Waste Lawsuits
New UN plastics treaty might provide the basis for plastic waste lawsuits in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
Read more...Failing the Fix: Grading Apple, Dell, Google, Microsoft on the Ease of Repair of Their Products
US PIRG releases a scorecard, ranking the products of major manufacturers on the ease of repair of their products.
Read more...Supreme Court Hears Case on EPA GHGs Regulation
An important legal test of EPA authority.
Read more...EPA Proposes Tougher Emissions Standards For Trucks
The Biden administration today proposed the first emissions standard upgrade for heavy duty trucks, vans, and busses since 2001.
Read more...‘Major Step Forward’: AIG to Stop Insuring Coal, Tar Sands, and Arctic Drilling
The campaign to get AIG to stop guaranteeing many fossil fuel development projecs has opened a new front in climate activism.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...Does Limited US Shale Spending Guarantee Higher Energy Prices?
Reduced shale investment is set to lead to sustained higher prices. That’s good for the planet but hard on budgets.
Read more...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.
Read more...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
Read more...Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer
Gail Tverberg throws cold water on green energy optimism.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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