Unleashing the transformative potential of an equitable economy.
Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy
August 15, 2017
While there is now widespread understanding that extreme income and wealth inequality is growing and...
Pipeline protesters walk out of DEP hearing, calling it a ‘sham.’
Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania
Dozens of people walked out of a hearing on an air quality plan for the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline (ASP).
Dozens of...
A solution for Hong Kong’s plastic waste crisis: Turn it into fuel.
July was a critical month for plastic pollution. Plastic waste now has catastrophic implications for Hong Kong, and the planet. In July, a study...
Australian coal-power pollution would be illegal in US, Europe and China – report.
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Environmental Justice Australia report says Australian coal-fired power plants regularly exceed lax limits imposed on them
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A representative of Victoria’s Yallourn power plant, pictured, told...
Ontario First Nation sues CN Rail over oil spills.
Firefighters arrive near the northern Ontario town of Gogama after a CN Rail train hauling crude oil derailed and caught fireOntario Provincial Police/CPTORONTO –...
Kuwait contains oil spill, power and water output normal.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait has contained a crude oil spill in the country's southern waters in the Gulf and is cleaning up contaminated parts...
Sierra Club sues US Energy Department over power grid study.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental group the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Energy Department on Monday in hopes of forcing it to reveal the groups...
Can some Nebraska farmers kill the Keystone XL pipeline?
“When I first started this, it was about my house,” said Shannon Graves, who owns a hardware store in Polk, Neb.—population roughly 300—and lives less...
'Black hole': Pollution from coal-fired power worse than overseas, survey finds.
Australia's biggest coal-fired power stations are permitted to dump toxic pollutants on nearby populations far in excess of overseas counterparts, even those in China,...
Shell and Exxon face censure over claim gas was 'cleanest fossil fuel.'
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Dutch advertising watchdog’s ruling prompts company to change line to ‘least polluting fossil fuel’ as campaigners welcome action over ‘misleading’ ad
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