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Youths Who Sued Trump Over Orders to ‘Unleash’ Energy Try to Revive Case
Published: April 14, 2026
Appealing the dismissal of their suit, they argued that executive orders to promote fossil fuels endangered their futures and violated their constitutional rights. Read More.
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The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills Jim Giles Fri, 09/04/2020 – 00:15 How about this for a series of maddening statistics? Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon […]
September 4, 2020
The Trump administration has moved closer to approving one of the last major renewable energy projects that it has prioritized completing by year’s end. Read More
September 3, 2020
The apparel and footwear maker said it will source 100% of its natural materials, including leather, rubber, cotton, wool and sugarcane derivatives, from regenerative agriculture in the next decade. Read More
September 2, 2020
The Defense Department will soon begin testing every military firefighter’s blood for a class of chemicals tied to health problems, including cancer. But the testing leaves out veterans, and there’s no standard for how much PFAS in the blood is too much. Read More
September 1, 2020
Alabama utility regulators agreed today to let the state’s largest electric company raise a controversial rooftop solar surcharge, going against the wishes of environmental advocates who say the fee will hurt solar’s growth. Read More
September 1, 2020
India should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean solar power as it mobilizes trillion of dollars to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.N. chief said today. Read More
August 28, 2020
The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance Joel Makower Mon, 08/24/2020 – 02:11 One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, “sustainability” is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory […]
August 24, 2020
Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers Jesse Klein Thu, 08/20/2020 – 02:00 Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods, is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century. “Food manufacturing has really only scaled up in the last 60 years,” she said. “And that means we’re also working on very antiquated […]
August 20, 2020