President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
Trump's National Monument order could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate …
Coal leases on public lands operated by the US Bureau of Land Management are responsible for 40% of US coal production and 14% of total US CO2 emissions, writes Mike Gaworecki - yet their environmental impacts have not been reviewed in 35 years.
BLM sued - no environmental review of coal leasing since 1979 Mike Gaworecki | 8th December 2014 News Climate Change Law USA Coal Fossil Fuels powder-river-trains-cut.jpg Coal leases on public lands …
Cumbrian campaign group granted permission for judicial review of county council’s approval of coal mine.
New coal subject to 'full legal scrutiny' Staff Reporter | 11th February 2020 News Change Makers Keep Cumbrian Coal In The Hole Coal Energy Emissions Legal Action …
The government's surprise delay in signing the contract with EDF to build the Hinkley C nuclear power station has opened up a the space for a forward-looking UK energy policy, writes Jonathon Porritt - one that moves us into the world of low cost renewables, and smart new technologies vital to the global clean energy transition. But is Business & Energy Greg Clark for real? Don't rule it out!
… on which to draw out such a vision; when he reviews the policy carnage in this area (on …
A massive expansion of coal leasing by the US's Bureau of Land Management will release tens of billions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere, a new Greenpeace report reveals - completely at odds with President Obama's stated climate objectives.
… to increased coal exports. However, the reviews "fell far short of a comprehensive …
Those opposed to the mass release of GM crops and foods inadequately tested for health and ecological safety are routinely accused of being anti-science, writes Elizabeth Henderson. But it's the GM corporations and their academic allies that are suppressing scientific research, and organic farmers that are building alliances with independent scientists for a future of safe, healthy food.
… for Modernizing its Program ," Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety , … Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews 23: 209-234. The patents which …
The Paris Agreement is facing its first big test in Queensland, Australia, writes Justine Bell. After a long process beset by legal challenges, the massive Carmichael coal mine is inching closer to approval - which would open up the entire 250,000 sq.km Galilee basin and its 28 billion tonnes of coal to exploitation. Both state and federal governments have the power to ban it. But will they?
After COP21, Australia's moment in history: will it ban the Carmichael coal mine? Justine Bell The University of Queensland | 18th December 2015 News COP21 Climate Change Australia Energy Coal Law …
Scandinanvia's biggest pension fund manager will cut all its investments in 'climate villains', writes Sophie Morlin-Yron - including 40 companies in the coal, tar sands and palm oil sectors.
Norwegian pension giant drops investments in coal, tar sands, palm oil Sophie Morlin-Yron | 30th January 2014 News Finance Fossil Fuels Coal Norway Green Economy Scandinanvia's biggest pension fund …
This intimate relationship between West Cumbria Mining and the quango tasked with delivering a controversial Geological Disposal Facility demands that questions are asked.
Coal and nuclear in Cumbria Staff Reporter | 4th August 2020 News Coal Nuclear Waste Waste Disposal Cumbria Radiation Free Lakeland Keep Cumbrian Coal In The Hole keep_cumbrian_coal_in_the_hole.jpg …
A green coalition has brought a legal challenge against the Treasury for refusing to rein-in the Government-owned RBS bank, which continues to invest in polluting industries
Legal challenge to Treasury over RBS investments The Ecologist | 2nd July 2009 News Investigations Politics And Econonmics High Court Treasury RBS Platform People & Planet World Development Movement …
Just as long term research into the health impacts of the 'electrosmog' created by wifi and mobile phones is yielding its first results, it's at risk of sudden termination from President Trump's budget cuts, writes Paul Mobbs. But the cuts have little to do with saving money - and a lot to do with protecting corporate profit and economic growth from harsh truths, including evidence that electrosmog causes cancer in laboratory rats, and maybe humans too.
… 1990s, but the result of initial scientific reviews was essentially, ' we don't know '. …
Industry repeats the mantra 'children should be discouraged from using mobiles excessively' while doing nothing to ensure it happens, says Vicky Fobel from the campaign group MobileWise
… , endorsed by senior scientists and medics, reviews and references more than 200 …
Overseas aid still being channelled by DFID through the World Bank who is investing record amounts in coal-fired power stations
UK urged to stop funding dirty coal power stations overseas The Ecologist | 10th February 2011 News Aid Climate Change Coal Energy Fossil Fuels coal.jpg Fossil fuel projects supported by the World …
Last night's BBC Panorama programme did a good job at lifting the lid on Britain's ongoing nuclear disaster that is Sellafield, writes Ian Fairlie. But it failed to expose the full scandal of the UK's 'reprocessing' of spent fuel into 140 tonnes of plutonium, enough to build 20,000 nuclear bombs - while leaving £100s of billions of maintenance and cleanup costs to future generations.
… reprocessing Ian Fairlie | 6th September 2016 Reviews Nuclear Technology Politics Waste …
The mighty Asian Development Bank is celebrating its 50th birthday this week in Yokohama, Japan, writes Hemantha Withanage. But the victims of ADB's $3 billion coal funding have little to be glad of - whether local communities impacted by mines and power stations, or people everywhere suffering climate change. ADB must stop financing coal now!
Asian Development Bank must end its 50 year addiction to coal! Hemantha Withanage | 4th May 2017 Comment Finance Fossil Fuels Coal Sri Lanka tata-mundra-cut.jpg The mighty Asian Development Bank is …
We all know that coal and steam vanquished over water power in Britain's - and the world's - industrial revolution, writes Irma Allen. But as Andreas Malm sets out in his fascinating new book, the deciding factors in that victory were the unconstrained mastery over people and nature that coal provided mill owners. And so the model was set for the fossil age that may only now be coming to an end.
… global warming Irma Allen | 27th April 2016 Reviews Books Fossil Fuels Coal Climate Change …
The 1865 Treaty of Point Elliot is clear, writes Jan Hasselman: the Lummi Nation has the right to fish, hunt and gather in their accustomed places in perpetuity - and they can't do that if a gigantic coal terminal is built in the Salish Sea's most productive waters. First Nations' treaty rights are now central to protecting the Pacific Northwest from destruction by fossil fuels.
… have been duking it out over environmental reviews and compliance with laws like the …
The history of genetically modified food has been one of systematic deception and fraud by corporations, scientists, media and regulators, Steven Druker writes in his remarkable new book. Jane Goodall finds the story by turn fascinating, chilling, distressing and ultimately, hope-inspiring.
… Twisted Truth Jane Goodall | 26th March 2015 Reviews GMOs Science Technology Media …
Keith Barnham's new book reveals the giddying and glorious plethora of the solar technologies that lie at the heart of the all-renewable energy system that awaits us, writes Jonathan Porritt - making it 'one of the most exciting and genuinely hopeful books' that I've read in a long time'.
… needs Jonathon Porritt | 29th October 2014 Reviews Solar Renewables Energy Technology …
Professor 'Jim' Al'Khalili's 'Inside Sellafield' programme was a tour de force of pro-nuclear propaganda, writes David Lowry - understating the severity of accidents, concealing the role of the UK's nuclear power stations in breeding military plutonium, and giving false reassurance over the unsolved problems of high level nuclear waste.
… of omission Dr David Lowry | 12th August 2015 Reviews Nuclear Media WMD Technology UK …
The New Sylva is a worthy successor to John Evelyn's original of 1644, writes Colin Tudge, with superb line drawings and a text that looks more to the future of Britain's trees, than their past. A book for ladies, gentlemen, 'meer woodsmen' and 'ordinary rusticks' alike.
… Britain's trees Colin Tudge | 30th May 2014 Reviews Forests UK Society Building Technology …