Fossil Fuels

Merkley Unveils Pioneering Bills to Make Financial Institutions 'Stop Bankrolling Climate Catastrophe'

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) speaks during a news conference called "Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020," in the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

'Stop Financing Climate-Wrecking Companies': Campaigners Light Earth on Fire Outside European Central Bank HQ

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Critics call out the bank for "purchasing bonds from some of the world's worst climate criminals through its trillion-euro Covid recovery package."

Advocates Welcome 'Inspiring' Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act as 'Exactly What America Needs Right Now'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

House Democrats on Tuesday introduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/">arbyreed</a>/flickr/cc)</p>

"By presenting smart, focused solutions to the climate crisis, this pioneering...

Indigenous Women to Financial CEOs: Stop Abetting 'Climate-Wrecking' Tar Sands Sector or Expect More Resistance

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Demonstrators hold signs at an anti-tar sands march in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2015.

"Join us putting the proverbial nail in the coffin of these dying unneeded...

'These Two Things Are Related': As Big Oil Ups Donations to Dems, Biden Says Banning Fossil Fuels Within Next Decade 'Not Possible'

WATCH: Sunrise Movement Makes 'Most Explicit Pitch to Fossil Fuel Workers' Yet With Ad for US House Candidate Mike Siegel

Bolstering Public Health Fears, Harvard Study Finds Elevated Airborne Radiation Levels Downwind of US Fracking Sites

'So What Are You Waiting For?' Say Climate Campaigners After IEA Says Solar Now 'Cheapest Electricity' in Human History

'After All, It's Our Money': Global Climate Campaigners Call for Public Banks to Fund Just Recovery and Green Transition

'Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid': Methane Ruling Seen as Ominous Sign With Barrett Poised to Join Supreme Court

Chase Climate Pledge 'Shows the Power of Relentless Environmental Activism' But 'Not Aggressive Enough'

Indigenous Leaders Furious After EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Sovereign Tribal Lands

Leaked Docs From Inside 'Omnicidal' ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions

Tens of Millions in PPP Loans Went to Corporate Polluters After Companies Were Fined $52 Million, Analysis Shows

In Solidarity With Frontline Communities, Day of Action Demands End to Funding for Tar Sands

Huge Victory for Ocean Defenders as Seismic Blasting Halted in Atlantic

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Less Than Tyrannical Feds Fine Freedom Industries Whopping $11,000 For Poisoning Water of 300,000 People, Because Freedom

The over-reaching, over-regulating, money-grubbing feds at OSHA have fined Freedom Industries an exorbitant $11,000 for last January's massive spill of coal cleaning chemicals that left 300,000 West Virginians without safe water, one in five people with health problems and local businesses down about $61 million. Oh yes, and the "clean-up" site is still leaking - twice last month - but Freedom, which has conveniently declared "bankruptcy," says it's only because of "heavy rain" and who could've...