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The Trump administration’s EPA is reconsidering whether the agency has the legal authority to revise air pollution regulations multiple times when new scientific evidence reveals greater health risks—a move that could severely limit the agency’s ability to protect public health…
Oil industry executives offered polite praise but delivered a cold reception to President Donald Trump’s push for massive investment in Venezuela’s struggling petroleum sector during a recent White House meeting. Despite Trump’s direct appeals, major US oil companies showed little…
Bob Weir, the legendary guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead who passed away on January 10th, devoted decades of his life to environmental activism that went far beyond typical celebrity endorsements. Rather than treating environmental issues as abstract…
The assassination of Virgilio Trujillo Arana in June 2022 highlights the deadly consequences of Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis. The Indigenous Uwottüja leader was shot three times in the head in Venezuela’s Amazonas state capital after years of defending the Amazon…
Australia’s Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is preparing to take an unprecedented diplomatic approach as the world’s chief climate negotiator for COP31, focusing his efforts on directly engaging oil-rich nations that have consistently blocked progress on fossil fuel…
The United States government has announced plans to withdraw from more than 60 international organizations, many of them United Nations-affiliated bodies, in a move that political scientists warn will severely damage America’s global influence and hamper critical environmental cooperation efforts.…
Australia is confronting a devastating double blow from extreme weather events, as deadly bushfires rage across Victoria while Tropical Cyclone Koji unleashes dangerous flooding conditions in Queensland. The bushfire crisis has claimed at least one life and caused extensive destruction,…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to dredge the Cape Fear River in North Carolina is drawing fierce opposition from environmental groups worried about disturbing dangerous PFAS chemicals already contaminating the waterway. This latest development represents another chapter in…
The American prairie, once a vast sea of grass stretching across the continent, remains home to an incredible diversity of wildlife—from iconic shaggy buffalo to the critically endangered rusty patched bumblebee. But decades of agricultural expansion and development have dramatically…
A contaminated landfill that once posed an environmental threat to Waukegan, Illinois, has been transformed into a powerful symbol of clean energy justice. The new 9.1-megawatt Yeoman Solar Project, built on a former Superfund site, now provides affordable renewable energy…
