Tag: fossil fuel industry
Climate groups are expressing deep concern following an Interior Department announcement, Monday that the Biden administration will resume oil and gas drilling leases on public lands and waters #FossilFuels #ClimateEmergency
Ditching fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy in order to keep warming below the 1.5ºC threshold is both “necessary and technically feasible.” #RenewableEnergy #FossilFuelExit
A new Carbon Tracker report warns competition with renewables, government climate policies, and the coronavirus pandemic could cause future profits from fossil fuels to fall by $25 trillion. #fossilfuel
The Center for Biological Diversity on Monday rolled out a new program to push back against the nation’s community- and wildlife-harming energy system that the climate advocacy group says is based on fossil fuels and a “centralized monopoly on power.” #ecofriendly
Those who risked arrest at the Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire attempted to enter the coal-fired plant via a set of train tracks and carried buckets with them in order to—at least symbolically—remove as much coal from the site as possible. #activism #bucketbybucket
The non-violent resistance of Indigenous water protectors against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock has inspired a movement of ‘sacred activism,’ rooting political action in spiritual reconnection.
America’s twisted politics may slow the transition to renewables, but other countries are now pushing the pace. In July of 2017, for instance, the Chinese announced that Qinghai Province—a territory the size of Texas—had gone a week relying on 100% renewable energy, a test of grid reliability designed to show that the country could continue its record-breaking pace of wind and solar installation.
Gigi Kellet of Corporate Accountability International says, “it’s time for Rex Tillerson to step down or be removed.” Here’s why.
New statistics from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released show that solar has become a cheaper form of electricity production than wind power, and is also out-competing coal and natural gas for the first time. It appears that global energy markets are set to undergo a major transformation as the world begins to finally shift to energy that is both affordable and renewable.
In this inspirational, 2-minute video, activist and Academy Award nominated actor Mark Ruffalo shares his positive vision of the future with TYT’s Emma Vigeland, including: “We are on the precipice of what could be the Golden Age of humanity.”
Water is the element of the feminine, so it seems right that a band of women are fighting the industrial destruction of the water on their lands.
