Category Archives: Global warming

Keystone XL Developer Abandons Pipeline Project

In an apparent victory for environmentalists, the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has pulled the plug on the project.

Book Review: “Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives”

Maxims for ownership, because markets.

The Front Lines of Climate Change: Cyclone Yaas and the Sundarbans

Cyclone Yaas smacked India and Bangladesh in late May. Its most severe impact was on the Sundarbans, the vast delta the two countries share.

Environmental Activists Call on Biden Administration to Pursue Ratification of the Basel Convention to Block U.S. Exports of Plastics and e-Waste

California lawmakers and NGOs call on the Biden administration to press for U.S. ratification of the 1989 Basel Convention and subsequent amendments.

Quaking Aspen: The Keystone Species that Clones Itself

The world’s oldest and heaviest living being is an aspen clone!

How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible

Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.

Lawmakers Are Firing Back At Fossil Fuel Divestors

Red state retaliation! Fossil fuel states will take business away from firms that divest from energy producers.

Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?

Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June.

Crypto Crackdown: Only the Beginning?

If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.

Beavers, the Landscape, Carbon, Methane, and Climate Change

Beavers engineer the landscape to create carbon sinks and methane sources. What to do?

Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?

Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.

Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives

The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.

Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports

Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?