Ecuadoreans can sue Chevron in Canada, Supreme Court rules “Ecuadorean villagers can sue Chevron and its Canadian subsidiary in an Ontario court to enforce a
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Ecuadoreans can sue Chevron in Canada, Supreme Court rules “Ecuadorean villagers can sue Chevron and its Canadian subsidiary in an Ontario court to enforce a
LaunchCalifornia’s Jerry Brown takes aim at oil companies over ‘highly destructive’ product Speaking at a conference near Lake Tahoe, California Governor Jerry Brown denounced oil
LaunchYes, Mr. President, We Remade Our Atlas to Reflect Shrinking Ice: “The shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet in the 10th edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World is one of the most striking changes in the publication’s history.”
LaunchNexen-owned pipeline spills an estimated five million litres of bitumen, sand and water in Alberta A pipeline at Nexen’s Long Lake oilsands project in northeastern
LaunchGeorge Lakoff: Pope Francis’ new encyclical is a model for how progressives should reframe Linguist George Lakoff has posted a must-read discussion of the English
LaunchPolitico takes an in-depth look at the success of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign Republicans like Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have repeatedly and continually
LaunchRachel Maddow reports breaking news of an oil pipeline rupture at Refugio Beach near Santa Barbara, California that has created an oil slick along 4 miles of coast and threatens popular El Capitan State Beach.
LaunchRenewed grassroots push begins in the plains to block Keystone XL The New York Times reports on the organizing being done in South Dakota to
LaunchThe New York Times is once again giving conservative Catholic voices based in the United States a platform with which to attack Pope Francis. The
LaunchWashington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters In one of the finest pieces that Bloomberg has ever published, journalist Bill Donahue explains
LaunchOklahoma concedes that wastewater wells cause quakes The Republican-dominated government of Oklahoma conceded today that science has conclusively demonstrated that the underground disposal of wastewater
LaunchHere’s what China closing coal-fired power plants means for emissions The world’s most populous country has decided to shut down a number of extremely dirty,
LaunchIn plain sight: How the Marathassa oil spill took hours to find A fuel spill in Vancouver’s picturesque English Bay has raised serious questions about
LaunchBig Oil is about to lose control of the auto industry A pollution-free revolution is about to shake up the automobile industry, resulting in cars
LaunchMitch McConnell teams up with dirty energy companies to fight EPA Not content with opposing a clean energy future for America from the Senate floor,
LaunchIf Senator Hoeven wants to play more hostage politics with the Keystone pipeline that simply revives the two big failures of their disastrous first two
LaunchState Senate doing its oily best to ignore us on transportation The Republican-controlled Washington State Senate is doing its best to ignore a plan proposed
LaunchNew instrument readings show Earth’s climate is warming Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and U.C. Berkeley have produced the first direct evidence that human
LaunchOregon Democrats plan to put their bigger legislative majorities to good use Last year, the Oregon Democratic Party did something remarkable. In an election year
LaunchAnother day, another pipeline explosion MSNBC: “Rachel Maddow reports on a natural gas pipeline in Brooke County, West Virginia that exploded in a huge fireball,
Launch2014 was the warmest year ever recorded on Earth The evidence just keeps on mounting that the climate crisis is getting worse, but humanity seems
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