HARD-PRESSED families shouldn’t have to pay an unaffordable price to reach net zero. That’s my guiding principle when it comes to tackling climate change. Rishi Sunak explains how his guiding principle when it comes to tackling climate change is to make sure hard-pressed families don’t pay an unaffordable priceReuters It was the message of The…
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Nearly 14,000 Nigerians take Shell to court over devastating impact of pollution | Nigeria | The Guardian
Nearly 14,000 people from two Nigerian communities are seeking justice in the high court in London against the fossil fuel giant Shell, claiming it is responsible for devastating pollution of their water sources and destruction of their way of life. The individuals from the Niger delta area of Ogale, a farming community, lodged their claims…
Powell: Fed Has Only Narrow Role to Play on Climate Change – Banker & Tradesman
Waves pushed by Tropical Storm Henri hit a breakwater on Cape Cod on Aug. 22. Experts predict Cape Cod and the Islands are at significant risk from rising seas and stronger storms thanks to climate change. The Federal Reserve has only a limited role to play in combating climate change, Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday,…
GOLDSTEIN: Bashing Canada on climate change is absurd and misleading | Toronto Sun
Article content We all know the refrain — Canadians are bad, wasteful and laggards on climate change. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. Except in the real world, comparing Canada to other nations by selectively using emissions per capita…
Climate-Change Activists Try to Deface Famous Van Gogh Painting, But One Little Detail Stops Them Cold
Two members of an environmental activist group threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting on Friday morning at London’s National Gallery. Afterward, the protesters glued their hands to the wall. The group, Just Stop Oil, issued a statement demanding the U.K. government stop all new oil and gas projects, according to CBS…
Ancient valleys may show how ice sheets will respond to climate change : NPR
An aerial view of icebergs and the ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption An aerial view of icebergs and the ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland. During Earth’s ice ages, much of North America and northern Europe were covered in massive glaciers. About 20,000 years ago, those ice sheets began…
Bill Nye Pleads With GOP Lawmakers And Fox News Not To Downplay Climate Change: ‘Cut It Out’
Science educator Bill Nye—a television presenter best known as “The Science Guy”—pleaded with Republican lawmakers and Fox News to “cut it out” and stop downplaying the realities of anthropogenic climate change. During an appearance on CNN, Nye told reporter and commentator Jim Acosta the world will be unable to rectify the consequences of climate change…
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns about climate change harm from nations racing to replace Russian oil and gas – CBS News
Berlin — Countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal supplies with any available alternative may fuel the world’s “mutually assured destruction” through climate change, the head of the United Nations warned Monday. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy now being pursued by major economies to end fossil fuel imports from Russia…
EPA plans to withdraw a Trump-era rule that gave the state of Oklahoma power over environmental issues on tribal lands
Native Americans demonstrate for Indigenous Rights at a rally at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press The EPA in 2020 granted Oklahoma authority to administer environmental programs on tribal lands. Oklahoma tribal nations criticized the EPA for not consulting with them on the decision. The EPA said Wednesday…
