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Described by one First Nations-led organization as a ‘double-edged sword,’ a tax strategy involving charities is providing a windfall for new mining exploration in Canada

In the March 19th verdict in Energy Transfer v Greenpeace, a North Dakota county jury awarded more than $660 million to “one of the largest… energy companies in North America” because Greenpeace supported the efforts of Indigenous Water Protectors in their protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state

EU policymakers must galvanise a shift away from coal-based steelmaking to boost industrial competitiveness and guarantee a future for over two million workers, according to research launched today and endorsed by 28 civil society organisations.

The research titled “The State of the European Steel Transition” highlights that the industry is at a crossroads but that “there is a clear pathway to green steel”, noting that this year is critical for advancing policies to drive the EU steel industry’s transition.

• Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years.
• Globally each of the past ten years were individually the ten warmest years on record.
• Each of the past eight years has set a new record for ocean heat content.
• The 18 lowest Arctic sea-ice extents on record were all in the past 18 years.
• The three lowest Antarctic ice extents were in the past three years.
• The largest three-year loss of glacier mass on record occurred in the past three years.
• The rate of sea level rise has doubled since satellite measurements began.

Fast fashion brands flood the market with cheap, trendy clothing at an unsustainable rate, creating enormous environmental and social harm. Despite their attempts at greenwashing (especially those involving the use of sustainability labels covering environmental or social aspects), their business model is fundamentally incompatible with true sustainability.

• The life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas power plants are lower than those from coal and oil, but still significantly higher than those from hydropower, solar, wind, or nuclear.
• The largest component of natural gas is methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Any use of natural gas invariably leaks methane into the atmosphere. There is evidence that we are underestimating how much methane-containing natural gas enters the atmosphere.
• Natural gas is not a ‘clean-burning’ fuel on account of the numerous pollutants that it produces, including nitrous oxides, particulates, sulfur dioxide, and mercury. These pollutants are linked with respiratory problems.
• Building new gas power plants is a commitment to using gas well into the future, which many researchers believe can slow decarbonization.