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by Steve Horn, OneZero Highlights TC Energy, a Canadian pipeline corporation that owns the Keystone XL pipeline, has partnered with Amazon Web Services The Keystone XL pipeline would carry oil from Alberta to Nebraska but its permit was recently vacated by a federal judge This announcement comes after Google declared it would not help create … Read more
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others at the hands of police, are abhorrent and intolerable. Institutional racism, intentionally interwoven into the American fabric since long before our nation’s founding, has locked in major inequalities for people of color in wealth, income, education, health, jobs, housing, and public safety. Black, … Read more
by Emily Atkin, Heated Highlights As protests and demonstrations occur throughout the world in response to the murder of George Floyd, some environmental groups have responded in solitary while many other activists and groups have remained silent. Groups such as the Sierra Club and white climate activists like Greta Thunberg have all spoken out in solidarity. However, … Read more
by Rachel Koning Beals, Market Watch Highlights A new report from Ceres examines the wide-ranging and compounding impacts of the climate crisis on U.S. financial markets. Due to climate change, the United States has spent $1.7 trillion on over 265 extreme weather events since 1980 and has seen economic losses of more than $500 billion … Read more
by Justin Gerdes, Greentech Media Highlights Though California is a leader in clean energy within the US, it remains the seventh-largest oil-producing state and needs to take action to eliminate the fossil fuel industry. California leads the nation in solar rooftops and electric vehicles and also ranks fifth in installed wind capacity For full fossil … Read more
by Laura Millan Lombrana and Eric Martin, Bloomberg Green Highlights A new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says investors worldwide are underestimating the financial risks from climate change, and companies need to start disclosing their exposure Asset prices currently fail to reflect the risk of extreme weather events that may cost $1 trillion annually starting … Read more
by Sammy Roth, The Los Angeles Times Highlights In the journal Science Advances, a team of scientists introduced the 30 by 30 plan to protect 30% of the Earth’s land and 30% of waters by 2030. This plan also serves as a pathway to protect 50% of waters and lands by 2050. The plan could … Read more
by Greg Muttitt, Oil Change International Highlights A new study in the journal Climate Policy has laid out steps to a sustainable and just energy transition away from fossil fuel extraction. Wealthy countries such as Canada, the United States, and Norway are using funds to bail out their oil industries while less fortunate countries must … Read more
by Gabby Brown, Sierra Club Highlights Culver City’s city council released a new report today indicating that the city would have the authority to phase out oil drilling within the next year Local communities have voiced concern about the negative health impacts of neighborhood drilling, which exposes nearby residents to toxic chemicals and puts them at … Read more
By Michael J. Coren & Dan Kopf Highlights Houston based nonprofit the Texas Coastal Exchange (TCX) has awarded grants to local landowners with marshlands on their property in order to prevent development on lands that help sequester carbon dioxide Jim Blackburn, the President of TCX, explains that by paying landowners for this service, they may in turn … Read more
