(18 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Pope Francis on Climate Change Deniers: "Man Is Stupid" Pope Francis said that individuals and world leaders have a moral responsibility to help preserve the environment or else be judged by history for their inaction. He said that those who doubt that human activity causes climate change should consult with scientists. Trump remains steadfast about his climate denial, despite expert opinions that Earth's rising temperatures contributed to the devastation of Hurricanes.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 21, 2017
Trump Disbands Climate Advisory Panel As Trump's presidency spirals like a toxic vortex from one crisis to another, and with the global news media reacting to one venomous tweet after another, it is easy to miss the slow assault against science and the environment that continues below the radar.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Leaked Government Report Sounds Alarm on Climate Change Before Trump Could Suppress It The Trump administration is getting more Orwellian by the day, but as fast as it tries to bury the truth about climate change, scientists are fighting back and showing that they will not be silenced by the climate deniers in the White House.

SHARE        Monday, August 7, 2017
It's Official: Trump Sends Formal Notice to UN to Pull America Out of Paris Agreement Trump is walking the wrong way into the history books on this. For all his policy failures and the continuing chaos around the West Wing and the White House, his total disregard for the future of this planet and for future generations is beyond comprehension to anyone but his fossil fuel cronies.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 2, 2017
30-Year EPA Veteran Writes Farewell Letter, Warns of Environmental Catastrophe Under Pruitt Compounding growing problems inside EPA is an autocratic and secretive Pruitt management style in which he declines to meet directly with non-political staff, refuses to use email so as to not create any record, and issues orders to create decision documents at odds with the overwhelming weight of evidence. Scott Pruitt has become the leading candidate for worst boss in the world.

SHARE        Friday, July 7, 2017
Trump on "Direct Collision Course" With G20 Over Climate Even if Trump makes it through the summit relatively unscathed, his views on climate change are still going to be continually challenged by NGO's, scientists, the media and of course, kids. It will be the issue that haunts his presidency to its bitter end.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 17, 2017
Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough "The narrative has emerged that he's this bumbling idiot, that it's all chaos," Klein said. "And meanwhile, behind the scenes, getting very little media attention is a methodical, very organized redistribution of wealth from lower and middle incomes to the one percent of the one percent."

SHARE        Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Oil Pipeline Spills 53,000 Gallons on First Nations Land Tundra Energy Marketing Inc, which owns a pipeline near the spill, has been handling cleanup efforts since Saturday. As of Monday, 170,000 liters (44,909 gallons) have been recovered. The pipeline was shut down after the breach was discovered. It is currently unclear how the leak happened or which company operates the underground pipeline that breached, as multiple pipelines operate around the site of the leak.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 9, 2016
"Trump's Election Is a Disaster" Donald Trump has won the presidency. Yes, the billionaire television personality who denies climate change, has ties to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and has promised to "renegotiate" the Paris agreement and completely dismantle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will be the next President of the United States!

SHARE        Thursday, September 29, 2016
11 Times Trump Said "Climate Change Is a Hoax" After just 18 minutes of the debate, conversation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump quickly transitioned to renewable energy jobs as they discussed the economy. During that exchange, Clinton slipped in the well-known fact that Trump believes climate change is "a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese." Though he has called climate change a hoax numerous times since 2012, he still interrupted Clinton to reject that claim.

SHARE        Sunday, August 21, 2016
Fossil Fuel Industry Is Killing the World's Coral Reefs Recent research confirms that the above-average sea temperatures causing this bleaching across 38 countries are the result of human-induced global climate change, rather than from local pollution as was previously argued and the fossil-fuel industry is the main culprit behind these impacts.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 26, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Grants $650k to Accelerate Climate Change Solutions Following the April signing of the Paris agreement, R20 Regions of Climate Action (R20) and Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) announced the formation of a new partnership to rapidly identify and fund projects that address the urgency of climate change.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Largest Civil Disobedience in History of the Environmental Movement Begins Today People worldwide are providing the much needed leadership by intensifying actions through peaceful civil disobedience on a global scale as so much remains to be done in order to lessen the effects of the climate crisis. This includes demanding governments move past the commitments made as part of the Paris agreement signed last month.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 29, 2016
Watch Susan Sarandon Share on Colbert Why She Broke Up With Hillary Clinton Susan Sarandon said she had to break up with Hillary Clinton after she voted for the Iraq war. "Then she became Secretary of State. I'm an environmentalist. Fracking is absolutely the worst thing you can do for the environment. ... She goes 'behind my back' and she's selling it all over the world. ... She's selling Monsanto. ... How can I trust her? And I'm a feminist. [Women] need a $15 minimum wage, right?"

SHARE        Tuesday, April 19, 2016
300+ Arrested in Mass Civil Disobedience Protests at the Nation's Capitol Thousands of activists from around the country streamed into the nation's capital April 16-18 for Democracy Awakening, which featured teach-ins, a rally, a march and lobbying as well as the civil disobedience. The aim: to fight back against business as usual in Washington, DC. More than 300 organizations endorsed Democracy Awakening.

(12 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 18, 2016
Bill Nye vs. Sarah Palin on Climate Change: Who Do You Believe? A clip of Nye and Morano's conversation was shown as part of a panel event promoting the movie that featured Sarah Palin, who took aim at Nye by claiming that she's just as much of a scientist as Nye.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Groundbreaking Study Confirms Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin uses less water during fracking operations than in places like the current mecca of frackquakes, Oklahoma. In the paper, the authors also conclude that the massive amount of wastewater incidents in the U.S. may cloak the impact fracking has had on induced seismicity in the central U.S., which calls for more scientific investigation.

SHARE        Monday, March 7, 2016
Bill McKibben Arrested + 56 Others in Ongoing Campaign Against Proposed Gas Storage at Seneca Lake The fight over the fate of the Finger Lakes received national attention today when best-selling author, environmentalist and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, joined the opposition. McKibben, 55, was arrested this morning with 56 area residents as part of an ongoing civil disobedience campaign against proposed gas storage in Seneca Lake's abandoned salt caverns.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 25, 2016
Matt Damon Slams Michigan Governor Over Flint Water Crisis: "At the Very Least He Should Resign!" Flint's water disaster started back in April 2014, when an unelected state official switched the city's main water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money. Emails released last week revealed that Gov. Snyder and his administration knew about Flint's water quality issues as early as February 2015 but his administration said the problems would eventually "fade in the rearview."

SHARE        Saturday, January 16, 2016
Obama's Coal Announcement Takes Us One Step Closer to Keeping All Fossil Fuels in the Ground President Obama has taken a major step to move us away from coal and accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy and we applaud his leadership. We hope to see elected officials at all levels support a just transition to renewable energy, which includes keeping all fossil fuels in the ground and taking care of the miners and communities that will need the most support along the way.