Only about a third of the climate-damaging carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in North America is offset by carbon-removing activities, a government report said.
According to the new U.S. study, North America released 1,856 million metric tons of carbon into the air in 2003 โ 85 percent from the United States, 9 percent from Canada and 6 percent from Mexico.At the same time, growing vegetation and other sources took in about 500 million metric tons ofย carbon.
Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. โ part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.
The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
By tying the projectโs fate to Indigenous โequity,โ Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
