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us/Why Public Health Experts Support These Youth Suing the US Government Over Climate Change
By Dana Drugmand
on
Leading experts in the medical community, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like t...
uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn
By Rich Collett-White
on
Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...
uk/'Unfit for Purpose': Students Seek to Take Climate Education Into Their Own Hands
By Frances Rankin
on
Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining suppo...
uk/‘It’s a Huge Step Backwards’: Teenagers Hunger Striking to Stop the UK's Newest Coal Mine
By Phoebe Cooke
on
It’s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light it’s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...
uk/Activists Occupy British Museum Calling for End to BP Sponsorship
By Frances Rankin
on
Activists from theatrical protest group BP or not BP occupied the British Museum overnight in protest of the fossil fuel company’s sponsorship.  The protest titled ‘BP Must Fall’ began the day bef...
us/Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels
By Julie Dermansky
on
Available for the first time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air monitoring data from over 100 U.S. oil refineries shows that 10 facilities have exceeded federal limits for cancer-causing be...
us/Judges Point Dismissed Youth Climate Plaintiffs to Political System Corrupted by Fossil Fuel Cash
By Dana Drugmand
on
When a pair of Ninth Circuit Court judges ordered dismissal of a landmark youth climate change lawsuit last week, they concluded that the U.S. government may be harming the nation’s youth through i...
uk/Scientists Say Paris Agreement Climate Goals May Now Be Unattainable
By Guest
on
By Alex Kirby for Climate News Network The fevered arguments about how the world can reach the Paris climate goals on cutting the greenhouse gases which are driving global heating may be a waste o...
us/Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement
By Julie Dermansky
on
On the afternoon of January 15, activist Diane Wilson kicked off a San Antonio Estuary Waterkeeper meeting on the side of the road across from a Formosa plastics manufacturing plant in Point Comfor...
us/How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
By Guest
on
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revalator. Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sa...

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us/Why Public Health Experts Support These Youth Suing the US Government Over Climate Change
ByDana Drugmand
on

Leading experts in the medical community, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like t...
uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn
ByRich Collett-White
on

Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...
uk/'Unfit for Purpose': Students Seek to Take Climate Education Into Their Own Hands
ByFrances Rankin
on

Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining suppo...
uk/‘It’s a Huge Step Backwards’: Teenagers Hunger Striking to Stop the UK's Newest Coal Mine
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

It’s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light it’s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...
uk/Activists Occupy British Museum Calling for End to BP Sponsorship
ByFrances Rankin
on

Activists from theatrical protest group BP or not BP occupied the British Museum overnight in protest of the fossil fuel company’s sponsorship.  The protest titled ‘BP Must Fall’ began the day bef...
us/Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Available for the first time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air monitoring data from over 100 U.S. oil refineries shows that 10 facilities have exceeded federal limits for cancer-causing be...
us/Judges Point Dismissed Youth Climate Plaintiffs to Political System Corrupted by Fossil Fuel Cash
ByDana Drugmand
on

When a pair of Ninth Circuit Court judges ordered dismissal of a landmark youth climate change lawsuit last week, they concluded that the U.S. government may be harming the nation’s youth through i...
uk/Scientists Say Paris Agreement Climate Goals May Now Be Unattainable
ByGuest
on

By Alex Kirby for Climate News Network The fevered arguments about how the world can reach the Paris climate goals on cutting the greenhouse gases which are driving global heating may be a waste o...
us/Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement
ByJulie Dermansky
on

On the afternoon of January 15, activist Diane Wilson kicked off a San Antonio Estuary Waterkeeper meeting on the side of the road across from a Formosa plastics manufacturing plant in Point Comfor...
us/How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
ByGuest
on

By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revalator. Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sa...

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