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Gov. Newsom abruptly announces he wont attend the U.N. climate change conference. Lt. Gov. Kounalakis will lead the California delegation.

Greenpeace USA by Ryan Schleeter Email "President Biden has taken bolder steps to tackle the climate crisis than any president in history. Still, he has not yet done enough." President Biden’s going to need to work with Congress to become the real climate leader we need him to be. The next step is for Congress to stop using public dollars to prop up fossil fuel racism. This Friday marks 100 days of the Biden administration. Today, as President Biden prepares to address both houses of Congress...

Doubles down on emissions This week Biden fulfilled a campaign promise in convening a “global climate summit” within his first 100 days in office. The two-day virtual meeting, attended by the leaders of a number of US allies and two of its adversaries — China and Russia — appears like many of these gatherings to be mostly a talking shop. But a decision on Thursday is substantive, and therefore bears examination. The president committed the US to reducing its greenhouse gas emiss...

(Boris Roessler/dpa via AP) Over the last year, many of us have used the phrase “You can’t make it up” in our continuing observations of the ongoing insanity unfolding around us on a near-daily basis. But when Black Lives Matter Marxists and Greenpeace environmentalist wackos (R.I.P. Rush) get their heads together? Oh hell yeah, you — they — can make it up. Bigly. Check it out — here’s a LOL example: “As the deadly toll of systemic racism, white supremacy & police terror mounts...

Greenpeace USA Greenpeace USA, Movement for Black Lives, and Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy Release the Most Comprehensive Analysis to Date of Fossil Fuel Racism by Ryan Schleeter Email New report details how fossil fuel production has created a public health crisis for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities © Les Stone / Greenpeace Today, Greenpeace USA, the Movement for Black Lives, and the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy are releasing  Fossil Fuel Racism: How Phasing Out Oil...

© Win McNamee/Getty Images From introducing recycled packaging to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, companies across the globe are increasingly integrating sustainability into their business models and marketing campaigns as consumers demand social responsibility from corporations.  In recent years, studies have indicated that more Americans are identifying sustainability as a central factor in consumer decisionmaking. In a November 2020 Ipsos poll, roughly 63 percent of U.S. adults said t...

PolitiFacts ruling: Mostly False Heres why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental and social justice agenda that Republicans have condemned. "Does this sound like an infrastructure...

Fact-check: Is Bidens infrastructure plan the Green New Deal? By Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact.com Replay Video PolitiFacts ruling: Mostly False Heres why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal,...

Greenpeace USA Greenpeace jointly files FTC complaint against Chevron Accountability groups file first of its kind FTC complaint against Chevron for misleading consumers on climate action by Ryan Schleeter Email Earthworks, Global Witness, and Greenpeace USA jointly filed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against Chevron for unlawfully deceptive advertisements which overstate investment in renewable energy and its commitment to reducing fossil fuel pollution.   March 16, 2021 — Ear...

Greenpeace USA by Ryan Schleeter Thousands of Activists Push Biden to End Fossil Fuel Era Climate justice activists marched from the White House to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC to demand that President Joe Biden Build Back Fossil Free. Photo credit: Movement Catalyst Thousands of activists across the nation ran, rallied, and posted on social media as part of a week of action calling on President Biden to  Activists organized socially-distanced events from...