Kathy Hochul Is Leaving a Climate Law Off the NY Budget
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Last year, New York State legislators passed the Climate Change Superfund Act, which would require major emitters to help the…
Last year, New York State legislators passed the Climate Change Superfund Act, which would require major emitters to help the…
Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities. That 2013 headline resulted from the…
This article by Capital
The 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) is set to…
Not only is the fire season longer, wildfires are burning larger areas more severely and at higher elevations. The average…
The US wildfire season used to last about four months, beginning in late summer or early autumn. These days, it stretches six…
With politically-aligned name calling, little attention is paid to the salient point -- shifting away from animal-based foods…
The energy transition is one of the most important challenges humanity has ever faced. However, like many other transitions, it…
Nearly 25 years ago, oil major Shell predicted in an internal 1998 report that a class-action lawsuit would be brought against…
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate conference, is in its final days. While negotiators work…
This piece was published originally by Capital
The demise of humanity from accelerating climate change seems certain before the next century dawns and may come within the…
In this post, authors Christopher Wright, George Ferns, Daniel Nyberg and Sheena Vachhani reflect on their paper, “Climate…
By Kristian Høyer Toft…
On 26 May 2021, the District Court of the Hague passed a judgment recognizing an obligation of Royal Dutch Shell to mitigate…
We find ourselves on the crest of a new wave of very, very rich people earmarking some of their billions for climate mitigation.
UCSWashington, D.C., Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies on Thursday for…
“Energy accountant” Richard Heede does research needed to hold major polluters accountable for their actions. -- Read more on…
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman announced plans to sell stakes in state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi…
The impact of rising seas prompts plea ahead of climate summit that begins on MondayThe countries most at risk of deluge from…
Healthier food choices almost always benefit environment as well, according to analysisEating healthy food is almost always…
Veganism and trees could help stop agriculture contributing to global heating, study saysIf one in five people in richer…
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangersThe Guardian today reveals…
As the impacts of climate change escalate, bankruptcies and other corporate financial woes are likely to only increase, writes…
As the impacts of climate change escalate, bankruptcies and other corporate financial woes are likely to only increase, writes…
Photo: nickton/CC BY-NC 2.0 (Flickr)In the next three weeks, the CEOs of major fossil fuel companies around the world are going…
Photo: Alan Grinsberg/FlickrThis week, U.S. District Judge William Alsup dismissed lawsuits by San Francisco and Oakland…
Photo: ArtBrom/FlickrLast week, I joined the Union of Concerned Scientists at the Chevron shareholders’ meeting in San Ramon, CA.
It's only possible with the new science of extreme weather attribution.
Paul BuchheitThe terror inflicted on Americans is real, and well-documented. (Image: Screenshot)
Campaigners are threatening to take oil company Shell to court in the Netherlands unless it takes major climate action. …
This week, an Anglo-Australian company’s annual meeting could send a strong signal for companies’ climate risk disclosure…
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his opus Democracy in America, “Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that…
Less than two years ago, documents surfaced showing that in the 1970s ExxonMobil knew about the damage that fossil fuel…
What can you do when the president of the United States says climate change is a hoax and Congress is gridlocked by fossil fuel…
Apparently, Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions? was so popular that it gets a retread.
Less than two years ago, documents surfaced showing that in the 1970s ExxonMobil knew about the damage that fossil fuel…
I’ll just put this item from UCS here for your interest: FOR IMMEDIATE…
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)A first-of-its-kind study published today in the scientific journal Climatic Change links…
By Anne Polansky Covering the year 2013, this is our latest installment in a timeline series addressing how the Exxon Mobil…
Ben LillistonRural communities in the U.S. and around the world are vulnerable to industries, often with headquarters elsewhere…
During his Secretary of State confirmation hearing, recently retired ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson came under questioning by Sen.
President-elect Trump on Tuesday rounded out a potential dream team of anti-environment cabinet members with the chief…
En diferentes lugares del mundo ha comenzado una batalla legal para que las empresas que se benefician de la explotación de…
Efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change have gained both momentum and…
The Philippines has revealed that it will launch an investigation into whether fossil fuel companies are to be held responsible…
The world is moving rapidly on withdrawing the social licence of carbon polluters. As the impacts of climate change become…
This is an guest op-ed by Alex Lenferna, Diego Arguedas Ortiz, Leehi Yona and Chris Wright. Two minutes. Once a year, global…
The Pacific Declaration for climate Justice signed by several Pacific Nations on June 8, 2015, threatens legal action to…
On Monday, the seven of the world’s wealthiest nations met in southern Germany and pledged to decarbonize the world’s energy…
By 2016, an interdisciplinary working group is to decide whether humanity’s impact on the planet warrants the declaration of a…
Those feisty, litigious climate-hawk kids just won’t go away. Back in 2011, we wrote about a group of witty whippersnappers…
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More than 70 major multinational companies signed the Trillion Tonne Communiqué, coordinated by The Prince of Wales’s Corporate…
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. As the San Francisco bureaucrats on the dais murmured about why they…
The moral of this story: people in power and bureaucrats seem exceptionally obtuse when it comes to recognizing that the world…
As an Australian who is concerned about our changing climate there is a long list of quotes from our new Prime Minister that I…
Meet the companies responsible for producing the vast majority of our fossil fuels: A recent paper by Richard Heede, from the…
In March I published a batch of early 2013 papers on climate related issues. In September I gave newly published papers in 5…
In March I published a batch of early 2013 papers on climate related issues. In September I gave newly published papers in 5…
Yesterday I read in the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business blog that it is silly for UCS to suggest that consumers are “being…
Too many climate headlines sound alike: “Polar ice cap melting faster than expected,” “Scientific consensus stronger than ever,…
Each week, we review the papers, studies, reports, and briefings posted at the “indispensable” RFF Library Blog, curated by RFF…
Can you talk turkey with your climate-change-denying relatives this Thanksgiving? Climate talks will fail unless parties agree…
Bill Talen, also known as “Reverend Billy,” sings with the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir in Union Square in New York, Monday, July…
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable. Again, I do not…
Today’s publication in the journal Climatic Change by Richard Heede on Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane…
New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have…
The climate crisis we are facing right now (which for one reason or another many people choose to ignore) has largely been…