The Renewed Legal Challenge Against the Dakota Access Pipeline | Earthjustice

I admire the work of this charity. Earth indeed needs a good lawyer...

A new chapter opens in the legal fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe renews their lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers challenging its recently completed review of the pipeline’s impacts.

The Renewed Legal Challenge Against the Dakota Access Pipeline | Earthjustice

Radical Realism for Climate Justice

A Civil Society Response to the Challenge of Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.

https://www.boell.de/en/2018/09/17/radical-realism-climate-justice?dimension1=ds_radicalrealism

U.S. judge bars Trump administration from OKing fracking off California coast - SFChronicle.com

A federal judge barred the Trump administration Friday from approving oil companies’ requests to use the high-pressure drilling technique known as fracking in offshore wells along the Southern California coast until a review of the possible effects on endangered species and state coastal resources.

Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site which is the fourth largest oil field in California. 

Photo: Education Images, UIG via Getty Images

U.S. judge bars Trump administration from OKing fracking off California coast - SFChronicle.com

The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires » Yale Climate Connections

The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires

by Dana Nuccitelli



Years of record-setting California wildfires are consistent with mounting evidence of climate change as a principal factor.

Now designated as California’s deadliest fire, the still-raging Camp Fire by November 13 had led to 42 deaths, with many residents still unaccounted for and more than 7,000 structures destroyed. (Image credit: NASA)

The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires » Yale Climate Connections

Common plastics emit global warming pollution » Yale Climate Connections

All is connected...

Sarah-Jeanne Royer shows plastics from the ocean at Kamilo Point, Hawaii. (Photo credit: Olivier Poirion)

Common plastics emit global warming pollution » Yale Climate Connections

Efforts to Fight Climate Change Had a Tough Election Day | The New Yorker

Several Democrats who campaigned on climate change flipped their congressional districts, but five of seven climate-related ballot measures across the country did not go in the planet’s favor.

Photograph by Jose Carlos Fajardo / Digital First Media / Getty

Efforts to Fight Climate Change Had a Tough Election Day | The New Yorker

Keystone Pipeline XL blocked by federal judge in major blow to Trump administration - The Washington Post

At least another temporary halt...







Keystone Pipeline XL blocked by federal judge in major blow to Trump administration - The Washington Post