Heated: Wastewater - The oil industry’s achilles heel
But oil producers in the Permian are running into a serious problem: They are running out of space to dispose of their toxic, often radioactive wastewater, often called “produced water,” which comes out of the ground at about four times the rate of every barrel of oil - nearly a billion gallons of this wastewater every day.
Jan Rosenow, Substack: Bright Spots - Clean Energy Investment Overtakes Fossil Fuels
Looking only at global data obscures these remarkable shifts and leaves us with the impression that nothing has changed. There are clear indicators of the energy system moving. Since 2016 more money is invested in clean energy every year than in fossil fuel technologies, today around twice as much.
Fix The News: First Nations win back the world’s oldest rainforest
On August 12, Australian courts recognized the Eastern Kuku Yalanji’s native title over a vast stretch of their ancestral Country in Cape York, including the remaining parts of the Daintree (Earth’s oldest surviving rainforest - 180 million years old)…
Optimist Daily: The Great Bubble Barrier - Bubble curtains are intercepting 86 percent of river plastic
Rivers are how plastic gets to the ocean. Stop it there, and you stop it for good. The Great Bubble Barrier, a Dutch company, built a technology to do exactly that. A perforated tube runs across the bed of a waterway and connects to an air pump. The pump creates a rising curtain of bubble…
High Country News: Trump Fast-Tracks Oil and Gas Development in Alaska
Trump and his team are following through on their promise to fast-track drilling in the NPRA by allowing new winter exploration and drilling to move forward without any kind of environmental review.
Inside Climate News: The year so far in New Power Plants
More than two-thirds of new power capacity that’s come online In the US this year has come from solar and battery storage, with clean energy responsible for 90% of new energy sources. Eric Gimon, with Energy Innovation, explained that the bulk of new projects are small and mid-size utility-scale solar…
Environment America: Governor Walz issued an order to block all mining in the Boundary Waters.
Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area is our nation's most-visited wilderness area -- an otherworldly labyrinth of forests, wetlands, lakes and rivers that provide habitat for creatures like gray wolves, the Canadian lynx and more. Yet this beloved landscape has been under threat of toxic pollution
Save The Waves: New Short Film - 'Beyond the Break: World Surfing Reserves'
We’re proud to release a brand new short film about one of our most loved programs: World Surfing Reserves. This new film goes beyond the iconic waves to showcase the people behind the World Surfing Reserves, and why WSRs are benefiting local environments and communities.
Optimist Daily: Europe’s electric flight era could begin within four years
Electric aircraft startups have been promising a lot for a long time. Two of them are now close enough to matter. Battery-electric and hybrid planes with a range of up to 500 kilometers (310 miles) would cover a quarter of Europe’s existing flight routes…
High Country News: Utah is killing the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is unique and uniquely fragile, utterly dependent on freshwater inflows to maintain its brackish wetlands, which are hotspots of biodiversity. Its significant degradation, much less its loss, would be devastating, not only to bird populations throughout the Western Hemisphere..
Happy Eco News: Portland Clean Energy Fund Raises $1 Billion for Climate Action and Community Resilience
In Portland, Oregon…. an innovative local initiative has demonstrated what can happen when climate action receives sustained investment. Created by Portland voters in 2018, the funding program is a first-of-its-kind climate and environmental justice program financed through a 1% tax on large retailers..
Earthjustice: The Line 5 Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes — But We Just Got a Big Win Against It
In a major victory for Tribal nations, Michigan’s Supreme Court just dealt Enbridge a stunning blow. The court overturned a key permit the Canadian company needs to build a massive four-mile tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac for its aging Line 5 oil pipeline.
U.S. PIRG: New York just raised the bar on electronics repair
New York's state legislature just became the first in the country to pass a bill requiring retailers to post repair scores for electronics at the point of sale…. Repair scores rate a product based on factors like how available spare parts are, how easy it is to take apart and how long the manufacturer will keep supporting it.
Inside Climate News: Can Tech Keep Whales Safe From Deadly Vessel Strikes?
In San Francisco Bay, new AI-powered technology aims to help ships dodge whales whose long-haul migration is being disrupted by climate change. San Francisco Bay is one of the busiest marine superhighways in the United States. Massive container ships cruise alongside crude oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge…
Boiling Point: Landfill On Fire
Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley. Few imagined the calamity that would follow.
Project Drawdown: How Much Beef Is Too Much for Climate Change?
Protein is having a moment. Though most Americans get more than enough of the macronutrient, there is a growing obsession with adding it to any number of foods, from pizza and cookies to soda and water. When it comes to climate change, where that surplus protein comes from can have a major impact on a person’s carbon foodprint…
Center For Biological Diversity: Suit Targets Trump Plan to Drain Mojave Desert
The Center for Biological Diversity and our allies just sued the Trump administration over its greenlighting of a private company’s plan to resurrect a defunct oil and gas pipeline to transport and sell groundwater out of California’s already-parched Mojave Desert.
Canary Media: California was mostly solar-powered in May — a global first!
While the Trump administration is busy pointing out that the sun doesn’t shine at night, solar is breaking records around the world, including in sunny California. Solar panels produced 51% of California’s electricity in May, the first time the clean energy source surpassed the halfway mark for an entire month…
Inside Climate News: Trump Promotes Commercial Fishing in Protected Pacific Marine National Monuments
In June, Trump signed a proclamation ordering the removal of commercial fishing prohibitions within the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument in American Samoa…
Sierra Club Magazine: Rae Wynn-Grant Is Breaking the Mold
For most of her two-decade career, Rae Wynn-Grant has studied big, charismatic carnivores. She’s tracked bears through North American forests and researched lions in East Africa. Now, she hosts Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, becoming the first Black woman to host a major wildlife television series….