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‘It’s Just No Place for an Oil Pipeline’: A Wisconsin Tribe Continues Its Fight to Remove a 71-Year-Old Line From a Pristine Place

By Phil McKenna — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:05:00 +0000

A proposed reroute of a pipeline would still jeopardize the “Everglades of the North,” the EPA warns, including wild rice beds that the Bad River tribe depends on.

By Phil McKenna

ODANAH, Wis.—“This is the last turn and the end of the fourth hill of life, when Bad River, as a spirit, transforms into something other, something extraordinary,” Mike Wiggins said as he rounded a final bend in one of the largest and most pristine wetlands on the shores of Lake Superior, one of the biggest freshwater lakes in the world.

This Country Voted to Keep Oil in the Ground. Will It Happen?

By Katie Surma — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:05:00 +0000

More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.

By Katie Surma

Update: After this article was published, the Ecuadorian government announced plans to cap and close 246 oil wells in the Ishpingo, Tambococha and Tiputini (ITT) fields beginning on August 30, 2024. That phase-out process will last until December 31, 2029. The government expects that removing other infrastructure, such as well pads, and remediating environmental damage will last through August 31, 2032.

Harris Stirs Hope for a New Chapter in Climate Action

By Marianne Lavelle — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Although expected to follow in Biden's pragmatic footsteps, her record as a prosecutor and voice for justice has environmentalists looking to the future.

By Marianne Lavelle

Although President Joe Biden already has cemented an unmatched legacy of climate change action, Vice President Kamala Harris raised the bar the moment that she entered the presidential race on July 21.

Thousands of Disaster Survivors Urge the Department of Justice to Investigate Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Crimes

By Keerti Gopal — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The action follows a growing trend of lawsuits and legislation aimed at making oil, gas, coal and petrochemical companies pay for their damage to the atmosphere.

By Keerti Gopal

Allen Myers was getting ready to visit his parents in his hometown of Paradise in November 2018 when the community was hit with the deadliest wildfire in California’s history. As he traveled home, Myers experienced the destruction in real time.

Almost 20 Years Ago, a Mid-Career Psychiatrist Started Thinking About Climate Anxiety and Mental Health

By Nina Dietz — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Now, Lise van Susteren has helped organize two professional organizations, surveyed thousands of children and concluded that it’s perfectly normal to be freaked out.

By Nina Dietz

In the early years, Dr. Lise van Susteren, a psychiatrist, struggled to find anyone in the therapy community receptive to exploring the ways in which climate change was affecting mental health in America.

Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water

By Wyatt Myskow — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:05:00 +0000

Nearly 80 percent of Arizona lacks any form of groundwater regulation, allowing big users like the copper mines supplying the energy transition to consume vast amounts of the scarce resource.

By Wyatt Myskow

This story is co-published with Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting.

An Activist Will Defy a Restraining Order to Play a Cello Protest at Citibank’s NYC Headquarters Thursday

By Keerti Gopal — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:41:18 +0000

The action comes after weeks of law enforcement crackdowns on leaders of the summer-long campaign against the bank’s fossil fuel financing.

By Keerti Gopal

A New York Appellate Court Rejects a Broad Application of the State’s Green Amendment

By Peter Mantius — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:52:06 +0000

The ruling comes in a case in which a citizens group tried to use the newly enacted provision in the state’s constitution to force environmental regulators to shut down New York’s largest landfill for emitting potentially hazardous odors.

By Peter Mantius

This article previously appeared in WaterFront.

After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought

By Victoria St. Martin — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Activists say the research marks a growing awareness connecting everyday life to the toxic contamination of the planet and ongoing harm to the climate. More research is examining how women are disproportionately impacted.

By Victoria St. Martin

The congratulatory calls and emails were pouring in, and Kathrin Schilling was trying her best to keep up with them all. A new study for which Schilling was the senior author disclosed the presence of such harmful metals as lead and arsenic in tampons.

After Navajo Nation Condemns Uranium Hauling on Its Lands, Arizona Governor Negotiates a Pause

By Noel Lyn Smith — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:59:58 +0000

The temporary halt is intended to allow the tribe and Energy Fuels Resources to reach an agreement over transporting the radioactive material.

By Noel Lyn Smith

CAMERON, Ariz.—The Navajo Nation doesn’t allow radioactive uranium ore to be transported through its lands without permission, but that’s exactly what a mining company began doing this week on roads administered by the state—which has no such restrictions.