Trump Gives Polluting Mining Projects a Pass
The administration’s latest executive order would allow one of the most damaging industries in the nation to skirt thorough environmental reviews. ...
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Oil and Gas Industry Halts Its Efforts to Use Seismic Blasting in the Atlantic Ocean
In rare good news, the permits that allow fossil fuel companies to use deafening airguns—which harm many marine species—will expire on November 30 and not b...
Bipartisan Effort to Prevent Pandemics and Biodiversity Loss
In a rare bipartisan move for Congress, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) today introduced the Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020, which w...
Pebble Mine Self-Destructs, CEO Resigns, Permit Denial Urged
Pebble Limited Partnership CEO Tom Collier resigns two days after release of undercover videos showing him bragging to hoped-for investors about political influ...
Pebble Mine Tapes Confirm Risk of Disaster in Bristol Bay
Shocking videotapes reveal Canadian mining company CEOs boasting to hoped-for investors about influence over government officials to promote massive 200-year Br...
Humanity’s (Correctable) Path of Biodiversity Destruction
When it comes to how we treat and care for the natural world, we are on the wrong path, jeopardizing the natural life support systems we depend on for our healt...