Coldplay is releasing a new album on Friday, but the release will not be followed by a world tour. The reason? The climate crisis. “We’re not touring this album,” frontman Chris Martin told BBC News Thursday. “We’re taking time over the next year or two, to work out how our tour can not only be […]
In a win for public health, the home improvement giant Lowe’s announced that it will stop selling carpets and rugs containing toxic PFAS chemicals in the United States and Canada by January 2020. Home Depot recently made a similar commitment, signaling that stores are starting to take this health crisis seriously. “Lowe’s is making home […]
The case New York State has brought against ExxonMobil for defrauding investors about the the true cost of the climate crisis is in its second week and is seeing a star witness take the stand Wednesday. Rex Tillerson, the company’s former CEO and Trump‘s first secretary of state, will testify about his role in pricing […]
Macy’s announced Monday that it will stop selling fur by 2021, The New York Times reported. The ban will apply both to its namesake stores and to its Bloomingdale’s department stores, and will mean that Macy’s 34 Fur Vaults and Bloomingdale’s 22 Maximilian salons will close. The company made the announcement alongside the Humane Society […]
The country’s largest fossil fuel company goes on trial today to face charges that it lied to investors about the safety of its assets in the face of the climate crisis and potential legislation to fight it, as the AP reported. The lawsuit against ExxonMobil, the country’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gasses after Chevron, […]
Volvo introduced its first-ever all-electric vehicle this week, kicking off an ambitious plan to slash emissions and phase out solely gas-powered vehicles starting this year. The Swedish carmaker unveiled the XC40 Recharge, a battery-powered SUV, at an event in Los Angeles Wednesday and has pledged to introduce a new electric model each year through 2025. […]
An advisory panel appointed by Trump’s first Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, has recommended privatizing National Parks campgrounds, allowing food trucks in and setting up WiFi at campgrounds while also reducing benefits to seniors, according to the panel’s memo. The advisory committee, the Subcommittee on Recreation Enhancement Through Reorganization, passed its recommendations along to […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report that says action is needed urgently to tackle the climate crisis. It said that countries around the world need to drastically reduce their carbon emissions immediately and the most effective way is through a carbon tax and with global cooperation, as Reuters reported. The report did not […]
Google has continued to curry political favor with staunch conservatives by making substantial financial contributions to more than a dozen groups that deny that the climate crisis is real, as The Guardian revealed in a bombshell investigation. The tech behemoth recently boasted about its net-zero emissions targets, its billions of dollars in wind and solar […]
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