Category Archives: Global warming

Carbon Pipelines in the Hawkeye State

A new, enormous boondoggle?

Climate Change: Where’s the Beef?

McDonald’s continues to dodge meaningful movement on climate change policies, which would require a big shake-up of its beef dominant product mix. Meanwhile, three supermarket chains have dropped Brazilian beef suppliers over deforestation concerns.

‘If We Want to Tackle Climate Change, We Want Them to Go Bankrupt … Right?’

Yes, Biden is sabotaging the climate, just like the other guy…but that’s not why Saule Omarova nomination as Controller of the Currency failed

Oil & Gas Investors Are Underestimating This Systemic Risk: Plugging Costs

An issue to keep in mind as fossil fuel demand declines: plugging costs can no longer be kicked down the road.

‘Inexcusable’: Amazon Under Fire After Warehouse Collapse Kills at Least Six

“Requiring workers to work through such a major tornado warning event as this was inexcusable.”

Mandatory Household Food Waste Recycling Program Starts in California in January

California to launch mandatory residential food waste management program in January.

Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

Agrochemical and pesticide giants like Bayer and BASF are pushing for weaker action on harmful chemicals and climate goals.

How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning

Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.

Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High

Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.

Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past

Climate adaptation in the global South needs to be addressed through development. Moving from de-risking to diversification requires a developmental state committed to ‘green’ industrial policy – involving investment and technology.

Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain?

Oil companies and regulators must bolster nascent efforts to repair the damage that has already been done.

Just Say No: IKEA to Phase Out Plastic Packaging By 2028

IKEA pledges to phase out plastics packaging; federal and state lawmakers should impose a similar bank on all U.S. companies

The US Biofuel Mandate Helps Farmers, but Does Little for Energy Security and Harms the Environment

Why biofuel is a scam, except perhaps as a subsidy to Big Ag.

Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.

Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26

Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.