Shocking new imagery of sharks hooked on Queensland Government drum lines, left to slowly...
March 18, 2019 - Humane Society International (HSI) and the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) today release graphic new footage and photographs of the true cost of Queensland’s Shark...
Chair Grijalva on Sage Grouse Policy Revisions: “This is a Smash-and-Grab Job, and Acting...
Washington, D.C. March 15, 2019 – Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today released the following statement on the Trump administration’s newly announced revision to...
EPA Proposes Use of 650,000 Pounds of Antibiotics Per Year on Citrus Fields
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2019— Advocates from public-health and environmental groups delivered more than 45,000 petition signatures to the Environmental Protection Agency today asking the...
New Air Pollution Ranking Highlights Threats of US Wildfires to Public Health
March 12, 2019 - New data compiled in the IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report and interactive world’s most polluted cities ranking reveals...
DOE Inaction Costs Consumers Billions in Wasted Energy
Washington, D.C. March 7, 2019 - Today, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) provided testimony to the House Subcommittee on Energy for its hearing:...
Trump Administration Announces Stripping Gray Wolf Protections Across Country
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2019 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced plans to strip gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protection across...
Report: Organic Packaged Foods Only ‘Clean’ Option for Consumers
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2019 – Unlike organic packaged foods, conventional packaged food contains thousands of poorly regulated food chemicals, according to a new analysis...
First Comprehensive, National Study of Coal Ash Pollution Finds Widespread Groundwater Contamination
Washington, D.C. March 4, 2019 - An examination of monitoring data available for the first time concludes that 91 percent of U.S. coal-fired power...
Proposed repeal of lighting efficiency standards a huge blow to the planet’s health
Boston February 28, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Energy is holding a public meeting today on its plan to revoke Obama-era rules that...
Too hot for comfort: the physiological dangers of extreme heat
Rockville, Md. February 22, 2019 -- A new review of more than 140 studies explores the physiological dangers that climate change will likely have...
Climate change stokes mayhem in several ways
LONDON, Feb. 22, 2019 - Stand by for long hot summers marked by riot and racial tension. As climate change stokes mayhem, global warming...
Alaska: Pebble Mine enviro impact statement proves EPA right, mine incompatible with salmon
Feb. 22, 2019 - Statement of Earthworks Northwest Program Director Bonnie Gestring "The draft environmental impact statement the Army Corps of Engineers released yesterday highlights...
82 dams removed to restore rivers, improve public safety in 2018
Washington February 21, 2019 - Eighty-two outdated dams were removed in 2018, restoring rivers, improving public safety and recreation opportunities, and revitalizing fish and...
Groups Challenge New Law Allowing Wyoming to OK Grizzly Bear Hunts
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Feb. 20, 2019 — Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue over a new state law that would give...
Biggest animals face extinction by being hunted to death
LONDON, February 19, 2019 – The world’s biggest animals – the largest birds, the bigger mammals and even reptiles, sharks and amphibians – are...
BLM Drops Wild Horse Sterilization Experiments, Plans to Return Some Horses & Burros to...
BURNS, OR, Feb. 19, 2019 - Wild horse advocacy groups are hailing an announcement Friday by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to officially...
EPA Oversight of State Permits Evaporating
Washington, DC, Feb. 19, 2019 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preventing its own specialists from formally communicating concerns about state-issued pollution permits,...
Clean Energy Stocks Prove Resilient Amidst Market Jitters
Oakland, CA—Feb. 19, 2019—As You Sow and Corporate Knights released today its sixth update of the Carbon Clean 200™, a list of the 200...
Federal Court Dismisses $900 Million Pipeline Company Lawsuit Against Greenpeace
BISMARCK, February 14, 2019 — Today, the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota issued a landmark dismissal of all...
UW study: Exposure to chemical in Roundup increases risk for cancer
Feb. 14, 2019 - Exposure to glyphosate — the world’s most widely used, broad-spectrum herbicide and the primary ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup —...