Energy & Environment
A recent declaration signed by three dozen scientists presents a strong case for the belief that fish, amphibians, mollusks, and insects are aware. The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness argues that current scientific research suggests widespread animal awareness is a “realistic possibility” — and that scientists and policymakers must take that into account when assessing risks to…
U.S. West Coast may become significant market for oil-sands crude
Many former colleagues of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a large environmental protection organization are asking the Independent presidential candidate to drop out of the race. Several current and former Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staffers, including co-founder John Adams and President and CEO Manish Bapna, expressed their support for President Biden in the new…
Texas and New Mexico had a court showdown with the US government on Wednesday in the ongoing ten-year disagreement about how to divide the water from the decreasing Rio Grande river. The Supreme Court listened to arguments about whether an agreement made by the two states, along with Colorado,…
Stellantis will join five other major automakers that previously agreed to California’s framework on cutting emissions in 2019.…
Texas’s public schools are withdrawing billions of dollars that had been invested with asset manager BlackRock — a firm the state accused of boycotting fossil fuels. On Tuesday, Aaron Kinsey (R), head of the state board of education, announced that his agency was withdrawing $8.5 billion from management by BlackRock. The company’s “dominant…
The League of Conservation Voters, a major left wing advocacy group and funder, will put a whopping $120 million into the 2024 election cycle, the group announced Tuesday. The $120 million from the conservation group’s Victory Fund is the most it has ever invested in an election cycle. It puts the total spending from outside…
Twenty Democratic state attorneys general on Monday filed a motion to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) oil and gas methane rule, in response to a lawsuit by Republican AGs. Twenty-four GOP states, led by Oklahoma’s Gentner Drummond, recently sued over the rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…
A nearly five-year period of unusual significant number of gray whale deaths along the West Coast has been officially concluded by federal investigators.
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