Environment mostly relates to environmental policy, or action human beings take (or do not take) to prevent or moderate our impact on nature.
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Tonight at 2:50 am the sun will cross the equator (visually from earth) and autumn will officially begin. Fall is my favourite season and I just gave you a hint of my favourite holiday. But before ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 09:59 PM PDT
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Kos told me DK ‘cares’ about the environment. That care is proving to be worthless. PeterOlandt recently published a ‘barn burner’ of a diary calling out DK for its abject failure in covering the WORLDWIDE climate rallies this past weekend....
by mikeymikey
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 09:05 AM PDT
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Los Angeles, CA — The struggle between Big Oil, represented by the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), and climate justice, environmental and public interest groups, amped up in California this week. Fifty-five organizations sent a letter to...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 11:44 AM PDT
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On Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg weathered the slings and arrows of outrageous Republicans at a committee hearing. At one point, while discussing why his department needed ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 07:03 AM PDT
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apnews.com/… Here is some better news regarding Climate Change and a great way for more of us to become directly involved. I am passionate about the issue of the Climate Crisis and learning of more ways I can get involved and help. Who we vote for...
by BLAYMAN
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 09:50 AM PDT
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A new report from the First Street Foundation released Wednesday has found that 39 million U.S. properties are overvalued because damage risks from climate change as a result of flooding, hurricanes, and wildfires ““have yet to be reflected in the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 08:43 AM PDT
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For more than two years, activists and a cohort of progressive members of Congress have called on President Joe Biden to declare a “climate emergency.” He reportedly seriously considered this in the summer of 2022 but decided against it. Critics have...
by Meteor Blades
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 11:21 AM PDT
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My first story! And it’s about #beavers! Hi! I’m a long-time lurker! In April 2021, I was minding my own business, watching TV with my husband, when I scrolled through Facebook and discovered that there was a family of beavers in my Chicagoland suburb...
by sushideluxe
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 07:15 AM PDT
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This is an edited version of short speech I made at the climate justice rally, march and festival organized by a broad coalition of groups in Old Sacramento on September 17. The activists urged Governor Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden to halt...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 06:42 PM PDT
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NEW YORK – On September 16, Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that California is suing Big Oil “for more than 50 years of deception, cover-up, and damage that have cost California taxpayers billions of dollars in health and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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In the 20 years I’ve been at Daily Kos, I’ve supported or initiated countless fund-raisers, mostly on Indigenous matters, like propane for the freezing residents of the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota and get out the Native vote efforts in Montana,...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 08:21 AM PDT
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The climate disaster we’ve been staring at for a long time is in the works. Quietly, under the radar, funded by boatloads of money from rich Republican donors, environmental traitors have been working on a plan to not only end our efforts to battle...
by RickElia
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 05:04 AM PDT
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RealClearEnergy has blessed us with countless examples of disinformation, but recently it seems they've given up the ghost of being legitimate media, and are just more or less transparently serving up advertisements in the form of op-eds. In other...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 06:31 AM PDT
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Good morning, Gnusies! I’m opening today’s GNR with an encouraging quote from James Fallows, who with his wife has been traveling and�reporting from all across the nation to try to pick on the ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I began writing this introduction on a record-breaking September day in New York City. It was 93 degrees (and humid as hell)....
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 09:46 AM PDT
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Back in 2009 researchers published the first report on exceeding the boundaries of Earth’s “safe operating space.” In 2015, there was an update. They concluded that the Earth had crossed the line beyond safety on at least four of nine...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 07:57 AM PDT
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The United Arab Emirates' efforts to bolster its reputation ahead of the annual UN climate negotiations it's hosting in December haven't gone particularly well this year. They've been playing the long game, Cartie Werthman uncovered for DeSmog...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 06:23 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly compilation of links and excerpts from Daily Kos environmentally related posts. Any posts that are included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 11:01 AM PDT
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SACRAMENTO, CA – On Sunday, Sept 17 starting at 11 a.m., hundreds of climate justice advocates from dozens of groups across northern and central California will hold a “joyous” Action to End Fossil Fuels in Old Sacramento. The advocates will call on...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 04:53 PM PDT
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Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining since 2016 but this year the bottom dropped out. A new record low minimum extent (for the satellite era when measurements are accurate) happened in February. Ice extent recovery started out on a normal...
by FishOutofWater
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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