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Environmental Justice Activists Look to Close Big Polluter’s Loopholes
A loophole is a polluter’s best friend — and today, community activists from fenceline communities traveled to Washington, D.C., to try and close one of them. These concerned citizens were in Washington to talk to the Obama administration about updates to the so-called “startup, shutdown, malfunction” rule for industrial facilities, including coal plants and refineries. […]
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Climate scientists are 95 percent sure that humans are causing global warming
Leaked drafts of the forthcoming fifth IPCC climate report reveal that scientists are more sure than ever before that we're screwing up the climate.
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The Climate Movement and the 2014 Elections
Here’s a thought: hundreds of local climate activists around the country running for federal, state and local offices in 2014, doing so in a connected way and with solutions to the climate crisis at the top of the list of issues they consistently talk about. Given the urgency of the crisis, this seems to me […]
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Pasta perfect: This Italian family grows heirloom grains
Italy is known for its pasta, but most flour in this country is homogenous and bleached. The Pedrini family grows heirloom grains through biodynamic farming.
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Meet the singing, anti-fracking nuns
In the rolling green hills of Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto are leading a grassroots movement against the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline.
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British farmland missing huge natural benefits potential
Filed under: biocarbon, NBI, agriculture Patrick Mazza, Research Director By Patrick Mazza Climate Solutions Farm support programs that target only food production miss huge opportunities to generate natural benefits, a new British study documents. A team led by Ian J. Bateman of University of Easy Anglia reported in Science found that carbon storage benefits in […]
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What’s in crude oil — and how do we use it?
An animated guide to how crude oil turns into useful fuel for cars, jets, and more.
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Kochs must move their massive piles of tar-sands waste, Detroit mayor says
Petcoke has been piling up on Detroit's riverfront near a refinery processing tar-sands oil from Canada, but the city has finally had enough.
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BLM schedules two major coal leases, undermining President Obama’s climate action plan
Next week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to sell 148 million tons of publicly owned coal, making clear that BLM continues to ignore concerns about the carbon pollution from coal mining, burning and export proposals. In addition to this lease sale, known as “Maysdorf II,” BLM has also scheduled the sale of the […]
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The growing buzz around the biocarbon benefits of farmland
Filed under: Northwest Biocarbon Initiative, climate change, NBI, soil, home, agriculture Patrick Mazza, Research Director By Patrick Mazza Climate Solutions Can agriculture reverse climate change? That was the intriguing title of a New America Foundation blog post covering a July 25 event at the think tank’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. The key theme was that changing […]
