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'A Total Disgrace': Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children
'Unprecedented' Decline of Plants and Animals as Global 'Red List' Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat
Julia Conley, staff writer
"We must act now both on biodiversity loss and climate change."
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Trump's Drilling Leases on Public Lands Could Release 4.7B Metric Tons of Carbon—More Than All 28 EU Countries Emit in a Year
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Americans have been kept in the dark" about the effects of Trump's drilling...
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Amid China Trade Tensions, Pentagon Eyes Toxic Rare Earths Development in US
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
A vast expanse of toxic waste fills the tailings dam on April 21, 2011, frequently whipped up by strong winds dumping mllions of tonnes of radioactive materials toward surounding villages where farmers blame the state-owned giant Baogang Group, China's largest producer of rare earths and a major iron ore miner and steel producer, for poisoning their fields and ruining their livelihoods near Baotou city in Inner Mongolia
Processing of rare earths has unleashed environmental catastrophe in China
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US House Applauded for Approval of 'Sweeping' Provisions That Target Toxic 'Forever Chemicals'
To Bolster Grassroots Groups' Demands for Climate Action, Philanthropists Raise $600,000 for Extinction Rebellion and School Strikers
Factory Farm Manure Energy Is a Very Shitty Idea, New Paper Says
'Time to Act for the Future of Our Planet': Other Lawmakers Urged to Join Fight as Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Unveil Climate Emergency Declaration
'Completely Terrifying': Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event
The Trump administration's budget cuts have led to a suspension of the USDA's tracking of honey bee populations.
USDA Indefinitely Suspends Honey Bee Tracking Survey as States Get Approval to Use Bee-Killing Pesticide
'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History
'Straight Out of Orwell': While Slashing Climate Regulations, Trump Plans Speech Touting His 'Environmental Leadership'
'Time to Turn Up the Heat': Sunrise Movement Unveils 7-Week Organizing Plan to Force DNC Approval of 2020 Climate Debate
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'Good News': Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate
'It Is Our Future That Is at Risk': Greta Thunberg and Ocasio-Cortez Talk Reasons for Hope in Era of Climate Emergency
"I'm Not Willing to Do That": Trump Says He Won't Take Climate Action Because It Would Threaten Corporate Profits

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Antarctica: Don't Come Here
Though he gets the appeal of free snow cones and penguins, John Oliver is more worried about the environmental impact of an estimated 40,000 eager tourists a year traipsing to and inevitably trashing Antarctica. His solution: A hilarious anti-tourism PSA.
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Friends of the Earth
Trump’s EPA Continues to Delay Federal Ban on the Brain-damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos, Leaving States to Take Action
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
EPA’s Wheeler Keeps Brain-Damaging Pesticide Legal for Use on Foods Kids Eat
Center for Food Safety
100,000+ People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis
Food & Water Watch
US House Votes 220-197 to Address PFAS Forever Chemical Crisis Against Trump Administration’s Desire to Shirk Responsibility
Senator Bernie Sanders
Sanders, Blumenauer and Ocasio-Cortez Announce Introduction of Climate Emergency Resolution
Center for Biological Diversity
Congressional Resolution Declares Climate Emergency
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Sarah Lazare
The Media Uses Coal Miners To Attack the Green New Deal—Then Ignores Their Pension Fight
Elliott Negin
Elliott Negin
10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year
Jessica A. Knoblauch
Fireflies’ Glow Could Soon Be Extinguished by Human Actions
Steven McFadden
Sleepwalking Into Certain Catastrophe, or Awakening via Agroecology
Carolyn Kormann
The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency
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Andy Rowell
Humanity Sleep-Walking Toward 'Mass Extinction'
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Jill Richardson
The Good News About Trump’s Very Bad Environment Speech
Conn Hallinan
Conn Hallinan
The World Needs a Water Treaty
Mallika Khanna
Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben
The Climate Movement: What's Next?
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