By Victoria Barrett As wildfires burn, as temperatures rise, as the last remaining old-growth forests in Poland are logged, world leaders are in Katowice to negotiate the implementation of the Paris climate agreement. To outsiders, UN climate talks may seem like a positive step. Unfortunately, this is COP24. For 24 years, world leaders have annually talked at each other instead …
Latinos And The Environment Earthjustice & GreenLatinos: 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey by Latino Decisions Poll by Earthjustice & GreenLatinos A new poll shows that registered Latino voters have a strong commitment to conservation, the environment and a genuine interest in how climate change impacts their families and communities. The poll, by Earthjustice and GreenLatinos, conducted by Latino Decisions, also highlighted Latino concerns on a range of …
By Sara Bernard Yes, America’s green movement is often seen as white. And there are plenty of reasons for that, including the fact that environmental organization staffers are predomnantly white and that a small fraction of environmental grant funding goes toward environmental justice. But when you ask Americans what they care about, nonwhites are the ones who give a damn. According to data from the Pew Research Center, organized …
BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin. Lawsuits filed Monday in Idaho and Montana claim the Trump administration ignored policies meant to protect the greater sage grouse when it sold …
SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — Protesters gathered in Salem on Tuesday night to rally against offshore drilling expansion along the west coast, including here in Oregon. Officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a federal agency under the Department of the Interior, held an open house at The Red Lion about expansion project, looking to hear from people so they …
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has message for President Donald Trump: ‘You will not drill off our precious shores!’; environmentalists, denied mic at hearings, stage boisterous rallies beforehand. By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press HAMILTON, N.J. (AP) — With giant inflatable whales, signs that read “Drilling Is Killing” and chants of “Where’s our meeting?” opponents of President Donald Trump’s plan …
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dozens of protesters rallied in New Hampshire on Monday against a proposal by President Donald Trump’s administration to expand offshore drilling, saying it poses a grave threat to the state’s marine ecosystem and economy. Protesters — some carrying signs that read “Stop Big Polluters” and “No Spill No Drill No Kill”— gathered outside a Concord …
Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the California state capitol in Sacramento Thursday voicing their opposition to a Trump administration plan to expand offshore drilling. The plan could open nearly all US coastlines to oil and gas drilling. (Feb. 8)
Recommendation could slow development of controversial, long-planned Coos Bay facility. By Jordan Naquiss, Willamette Week The staff of the Oregon Department of Energy is recommending the denial of an exemption sought by developers of the proposed Jordan Cove liquified natural gas project in Southern Oregon. If built, the project would be by far the most expensive project in Oregon history—but …
by Molly Solomon OPB Feb. 13, 2018 3:50 p.m. | Vancouver, Wash. Early this year, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said no to a massive oil-by-rail terminal proposed in Vancouver, Washington. The $210 million Vancouver Energy project, a joint venture from Tesoro and Savage, would have brought up to 360,000 gallons of crude oil a day on trains traveling along the …