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Ecocide: Should Destruction of the Planet Be a Crime? To prosecute and imprison political leaders and corporate executives would require a parsing of legal boundaries and a recalibration of criminal accountability. April 7, 2021 A refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo, collects water for their vegetable crops at a water pan in Kalobeyei settlement for refugees in Turkana County, Kenya on October 2, 2019. Credit: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article At many moments in hi...

Louisville super-polluting chemical plant emits not 1, but 2 potent greenhouse gases By Phil McKenna and James Bruggers © James Bruggers/Inside Climate News The Chemours chemical plant in Louisville is the nations largest emitter of the climate super-pollutant HFC-23, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Chemours Louisville Works emits a chemical feedstock and a separate gas byproduct that do more damage to the climate than 750,000 p...

For decades, the U.S. agriculture industry had staunchly opposed measures to limit climate change. Lobbying groups, such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, expressed skepticism that humans caused it. And companies, such as Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods, have been fined millions for environmental violations. But the industry in recent years has altered its stance on the issue. Riding a wave of shifting public opinion about the reality of climate change, it is staking out a new position a...

Once climate change deniers, the agriculture industry positions itself as part of the solution Ignacio Calderon For decades, the U.S. agriculture industry had staunchly opposed measures to limit climate change. Lobbying groups, such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, expressed skepticism that humans caused it. And companies, such as Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods, have been fined millions for environmental violations. But the industry in recent years has altered its stanc...

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) This Earther report is being co-published with the . The Biden administration has pledged to make the climate crisis a top-tier issue, authorizing a “whole of government” to take on climate change. That would mean the responsibility to legislate environmental action wouldn’t be left up only to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, but would extend to all agencies, including financial regulators. Advertisement Already, over ...

A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City Executives at Chemours promised at the White House in 2015 to try to abate the emissions. Now, they say it will take two more years. March 9, 2021 Chemical plants in the Rubbertown area of Louisville stand near the Ohio River in February 2018 during flood conditions on the river. The Chemours chemical plant, located within the wedge-shaped Chemours property in the lower half of...

This is the March 4, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There’s a classic scene in “The Graduate” where Dustin Hoffman’s character, fresh out of college, gets pulled aside at a graduation party by a well-meaning friend of his parents and told: “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word ... plastics.” If that scene were written today with sustai...

NationofChange Pennsylvania families exposed to unusually high levels of oil and gas industry chemicals, report finds “The commonwealth has a long relationship with extractive industry, but it is an abusive one. It is time to start planning a divorce.” A groundbreaking four-part report by Environmental Health News (EHN) offers new scientific evidence that living near oil and gas development can expose people to a wide array of hazardous and carcinogenic chemicals — not just...

Tuesday, March 02, 2021   View Larger + Renewable energy outpaced coal in 2020 as a source of U.S. electricity generation, continuing its marked rise, according to recently released numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).  Renewable energy--solar, wind and hydroelectric power--is now responsible for 21% of our electricity generation and EIA projects that even without Biden’s more aggressive approach designed to accelerate the transition to non-carbon producing energy ...

Print This is the Feb. 18, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. As a deadly winter storm plunged millions of Texans into darkness this week, politicians skeptical of climate change and loyal to the oil and gas industry did what they do best: They blamed renewable energy. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the power grid emergency “shows ho...