‘Absolutely disastrous’: Air conditioners take horror toll on the environment, campaigners warn
If you’ve coped in a sweltering heatwave by blasting the air conditioning, you aren’t alone. As the planet heats up, more people are turning to AC to stay cool. But these energy-guzzling, chemical-leaking units take a huge toll on the planet. With the worldwide number of air conditioners projected to triple by 2050, experts warn […]
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UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right
The resolution, based on a similar text adopted last year by the Human Rights Council, calls upon States, international organisations, and business enterprises to scale up efforts to ensure a healthy environment for all. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, welcomed the ‘historic’ decision and said the landmark development demonstrates that Member States can come together in […]
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Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan
WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a key centrist Democrat, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to include hundreds of billions of dollars for climate and energy programs and tax increases in a package to subsidize health care and lower the cost of prescription drugs, less than two weeks after abruptly […]
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UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right |
The resolution, based on a similar text adopted last year by the Human Rights Council, calls upon States, international organisations, and business enterprises to scale up efforts to ensure a healthy environment for all. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, welcomed the ‘historic’ decision and said the landmark development demonstrates that Member States can come together in […]
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US firefighters begin to slow huge California wildfire | Environment News
Firefighters have begun to slow the spread of the largest wildfire so far this year in California, after the Oak Fire threatened the famed Yosemite National Park and forced thousands of residents to evacuate their communities. The massive blaze expanded rapidly since it began on Friday, overwhelming the initial deployment of firefighters as scorching and […]
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Justice Department Opens Environmental Racism Investigation Of Houston | News
Numerous complaints about alleged environmental racism in Houston have prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation on Friday (July 23), The New York Times reports. Houston-based Lone Star Legal Aid has chronicled hundreds of calls from residents in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods about officials ignoring their complaints about illegal garbage […]
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Climate Advocates Hoping Biden Would Declare a Climate Emergency Are Disappointed by the Small Steps He Announced on Wednesday
President Joe Biden pledged Wednesday that he would treat climate change as an emergency, but his only immediate exercise of executive authority was to move federal funding to help communities and low-income households cope with the heat. The president promised that more steps would be announced in the coming days, but many climate action advocates […]
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Extreme heat warnings in effect in 28 states across US | Climate crisis
The National Weather Service has warned that extreme heat will affect more than 100 million people in the US this week, with triple-digit temperatures in some states and broken temperature records in many areas across the country. “Above-normal temperatures will continue to prevail across much of the US through the end of the week, with […]
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Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action
WASHINGTON — One hundred million Americans from Arizona to Boston are under heat emergency warnings, and the drought in the West is nearing Dust Bowl proportions. Britain declared a climate emergency as temperatures soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and parts of blistering Europe are ablaze. But on Capitol Hill this week, Republicans were warning against […]
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How Environmental Activists and Reviews Can Worsen Wildfires
Firefighters battle the Oak Fire in Midpines, Calif., July 23. Photo: peter da silva/Shutterstock With more than three million acres already burned or burning, 2022 is shaping up to be another devastating year for wildfires in the U.S. America’s forests need to be managed more actively, a task the Biden administration took up earlier this […]
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