In a setback for clean water protections, the Supreme Court today invalidated EPA permitting requirements regulating water pollution, undermining the agency’s authority under the Clean Water Act to prevent pollution that harms human health and the environment.
Though more work must be done, the decision on a biodiversity finance mechanism may chart the right course to begin closing the biodiversity finance gap.
A dangerous new proposal from Houston-based Mexico Pacific, backed by J.P. Morgan along with oil and gas giants like Shell, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil, would turn the Gulf of California—a World Heritage site—into a sacrifice zone to export climate-destroying liquified natural…
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at weakening environmental protections to make widespread commercial logging the guiding purpose of federal forest management.
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity concluded with cautious optimism as nations adopted new measures to track and fund efforts to halt biodiversity loss.
