Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Climate Change
Follow:
-
Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment From Fossil Fuels
More than 40 Catholic institutions will make the largest ever faith-based divestment, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.
-
Letter from Athens: The Greek Oil Spill Disaster That Should Not Have Been
The oil tanker that sank last week in the gulf of Saronikos had failed to meet safety standards as early as 2008, and according to a maritime workers' union, the ship had been deemed “extremely dangerous to safe navigation.”
-
These Corporations Have the Biggest Influence on Climate Policy
The "Corporate Carbon Policy Footprint," a new analysis from InfluenceMap, now ranks Koch Industries as the company with the strongest opposition to the Paris climate agreement
-
Climate Change Has ‘Loaded The Dice’ On The Frequency Of 100-Year Floods
Maybe we need a new way to describe extreme weather events.
-
Activists Demand Climate Refugees Be Recognized
A 2015 tidal surge caused the sea to flood across the islands of Kiribati, the small Pacific island nation chain of atolls that could be the first national homeland lost completely to climate change.
-
Gulf Coast "Dead Zone" the Size of New Jersey Alarms Scientists
Scientists from Louisiana State U. and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium found the area of hypoxia, or low oxygen, to be the largest in the 31 years that the group has been measuring – and the 2nd largest man-made hypoxia region in the world.
-
Millions Consumed Potentially Unsafe Water in the Past 10 Years
As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural California to the boroughs of New York City were exposed to potentially unsafe water in the last decade due to industrial dumping, farming pollution and pipe deterioration.
-
What to Do When You See Science Denial at the Science Museum
I went to DC’s Smithsonian Museum of Natural History expecting to learn about the history of our planet. Instead, I stumbled upon a Koch-funded climate denial disaster.
-
On Electric Cars, the U.S. Is Stuck in the Slow Lane
While Europe races toward electric vehicles, U.S. automakers are actually trying to make cars less efficient.
-
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are a Staggering $5 Trillion Per Year
A study was just published in the journal World Development that quantifies the amount of subsidies directed toward fossil fuels globally, and the results are shocking.
