Two years of lockdowns and distancing forced the growing climate movement into the online world. During 2020, as the world stood still, emissions went down 7% globally, showing us what is possible, if governments were to take emergency measures. However, as world...
Last Friday, the Biden administration announced it would resume plans for oil and gas development on federally owned lands. This means selling leases for drilling on 144,000 acres of public land, reversing a previous ban. And even though companies will be required to...
500 workers at Chevron’s Richmond refinery have been on strike since Monday, March 21. And Chevron management hasn’t moved any closer to the workers’ demands: an extra 5% wage increase to adjust for the rising cost of living in the Bay Area (on top of the...
April 22 is Earth Day, a day each year when millions of people around the world demonstrate their concern for the environment. It started in 1970 in response to human-made environmental disasters, including a massive oil spill off the coast of California (at that time...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just published the final section of their three-part climate assessment. It may be the most controversial section yet. The previous two (published in February and August) dealt with the ways the climate is changing...
