Energy companies and other businesses are no longer liable for accidentally killing migratory birds, the Trump administration announced Friday in a decision hailed by industry insiders. A legal memo by the U.S. Interior Department reverses a longstanding agency practice and last-minute ruling released by the Obama administration in January 2017. The Obama-era policy meant that […]
By Sharon Kelly At a shareholder meeting this past spring, U.S. Bank announced it would be the first large American bank to completely stop issuing loans for oil and gas pipeline construction projects. Environmental groups, indigenous activists and divestment advocates hailed U.S. Bank’s announcement as a triumph. Yet that triumph—and the bank’s commitment—seems less sure […]
If you ever felt like your iPhone is getting slower over time, Apple has admitted that it deliberately slows down the processing speeds of phones with older batteries to stop them shutting down without warning. The tech giant is ultimately doing a good thing—even if it’s in a sneaky, backhanded way. Smartphone batteries certainly have […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer released separate plans on Tuesday to divest state and city pension funds from coal, oil and gas companies. Environmentalists are celebrating this major win in the global movement for fossil fuel divestment, as the state and city’s public pension funds are among the […]
By Alice Ross Soft drinks executives told government officials most shoppers don’t care much about the environmental impact of the plastic drinks bottles they buy, according to documents seen by Unearthed. Coca-Cola, Lucozade Ribena, Danone and Nestle were among those invited to a soft drinks roundtable to discuss the problem of plastic bottle waste and […]
By Paul Griffin Exxon Mobil Corp. has vowed to do a better job in disclosing the risks it faces from climate change starting “in the near future,” after bucking pressure to do that for years. Until now, shareholders and bondholders had no choice but to rely on informed guesswork by outsiders to divine how the […]
The city of Shenzen, China is home to a staggering 16,000 buses. To compare, that’s more buses than the five largest North American bus fleets combined (New York City, Los Angeles County, New Jersey Transit, Chicago and Toronto). Now, after a six-year effort to replace its diesel-fueled buses, the major Chinese city is well on […]
The Trump administration violated the law by withholding funds from an Energy Department program that supported research and development of advanced energy technologies, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Tuesday. The GAO said the Trump administration had violated the Impoundment Control Act by not spending $91 million that was intended for the Energy Department’s […]
The amount of electronic waste around the world grew to a record 45 million tons in 2016, according to a United Nations-backed study released on Wednesday. To put that in perspective, the weight of last year’s e-waste was equivalent to about 4,500 Eiffel Towers, according to the study by the UN university, the International Telecommunication […]
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