Powered by RebelMouse

cdm

Top Tweets
Polluting smoke billows from smokestacks of a power plant.
A neighborhood lies in charred rubble after a fire burned it.
EV charging with wind turbines silhouetted in background against an evening sky.
Home damaged by a hurricane.
EXPLORE
Copyright © RebelMouse 2017
Janet Yellen world bank climate
Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay

Yellen to press for additional reforms at World Bank this year

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will call on Wednesday for the World Bank to undertake additional reforms this year to expand its ability to help developing countries meet global challenges such as climate change.
limetree refinery virgin islands toxics
Cumulus Clouds image Multi-license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.5 and older versions (2.0 and 1.0)

St. Croix refinery cannot restart without new permit, air pollution tech -EPA

U.S. regulators will require a new Clean Air Act permit for a troubled oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which could cost its owners hundreds of millions of dollars and take three years or more to obtain, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday.
Politics
Religious leaders urge banks to stop financing drivers of climate change
commons.wikimedia.org

Religious leaders urge banks to stop financing drivers of climate change

Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders joined United Nations officials on Monday in urging financial institutions to stop bankrolling activities that are driving climate change, including ending support for new fossil fuel projects.
Politics
Is the ‘legacy’ carbon credit market a climate plus or just hype?
e360.yale.edu

Is the ‘legacy’ carbon credit market a climate plus or just hype?

As major corporations look to buy carbon credits to offset emissions, critics are questioning the value of "legacy" credits from green projects that are a decade or more old.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
Woman in business attire standing on stairs in front of a building with a box of personal items next to her.

Trump administration fires climate.gov team, leaving federal climate science site in limbo

Smokestack with smoke emitting from it.

EPA claims power plant emissions aren’t harmful, contradicting climate science

Group of people in a city conference room shaking hands.

Trump allies pressure Europe to weaken corporate climate rules

MOST POPULAR
Jellyfish floating in the ocean

Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

Green coral on a reef.

EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

Wildfire smoke in the distance with a forested hill in the foreground.

Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen

CLIMATE
A neighborhood lies in charred rubble after a fire burned it.

A broken system keeps stalling U.S. climate action