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No-One Is Buying Trump’s Florida Environmental Scam
These are the deeds of an environmental exploiter, not an environmentalist.

WORC Has a Post-Coal Plan That’ll Work
Organization presents what can be a valuable roadmap for elected officials and regulators who embrace the reality of energy’s future.

Let’s Not Forget the Environmental & Climate Crises
It’s easy to lose track of the colossal damage Trump is doing to environmental protections and the impending devastation of climate change. But we can’t.

#NoDAPL!!!
CELEBRATE! Courage, righteousness and tenacity overcome wealth, greed and cronyism in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. For now.

Climate Change Changes Post-Disaster Questions
Logic demands we ask why we’re throwing billions upon billions at rebuilding cities and regions that have been devastated by hurricanes and are destined to be hospitable only to marine life by the end of this century or (probably) much sooner.
Let’s not allow a refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park
I grew up in Medora, N.D. It was the 1970s, about the time a previous oil boom was running full-tilt in the western part of the state. / The air was still fresh and clean, whitetails walked down an empty Main Street in the early evenings this time of year, and the 100 or so souls who called the place home year-round enjoyed the post-tourist peace and quiet….
Kids Just Wanna Have Their Planet
Climate Lawsuits Aim to Hold Governments Accountable —
Leave it to a bunch of kids. / Twenty-one of them from around the United States filed a “constitutional climate lawsuit” against the U.S. government in 2015. At the time, they ranged in age from 9 to 20. For the most part they were, and still are, people with next-to-zero voice in our formal political system. Even so, they’re out in front of a new offensive in the environmental struggle…
Slipping and Dying: Bees, Humans and the Planet
As POTUS 45 rolls back environmental protections, climate change is sickening the Earth, us and the species we depend on. The rusty patched bumble bee probably would have preferred to […]