Environment
How does Leonardo DiCaprio insult China? Just by telling the truth
Leonardo DiCaprio, a Hollywood actor who has always been concerned about the environment, recently tweeted criticizing the Chinese Communist Party for expanding its ocean fishing fleet and depleting fish stocks. On September 29, DiCaprio accused China of overfishing, "The past two decades have seen China build its deep-sea fishing ...
City that’s home to Walt Disney Imagineering builds last fossil-fueled power plant
Despite activist opposition, an iconic Southern Californian settlement will proceed with a proposed natural gas power facility. The City of Glendale approved spending $260 million on five new generators at the Grayson Power Plant, 11 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. State-run operator Glendale Water and Power confirmed that the proposed 93-megawatt ...
Study: Most extreme drought in 1,200 years hits Southwest
America's West Coast recorded the severest dry spell in more than a millennium, a new study found. The 21st Century has brought California's worst drought in 1,200 years so far. This is the shocking conclusion researchers reached after comparing soil moisture and water reservoir levels from the past 21 years to ...
Pelosi spends over $500K on private jets after making ‘moral obligation’ to climate
A Democrat from California claimed she conscientiously reduces her carbon footprint despite spending big money on private air travel. House speaker Nancy Pelosi openly admitted her campaign paid over $502,000 on private flights since 2020. Federal Election Commission data confirmed the Nancy Pelosi for Congress campaign paid more than $437,000 to the ...
COP26 slams China’s soft stance on coal reduction, Beijing fires back
A climate change leader condemned Communist China's weak environmental commitment on Nov. 13. COP26 summit president Alok Sharma criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for taking a softer stance on reducing coal consumption. However, Beijing has pushed back. Once United Nations climate talks ended with a deal targeting fossil fuels for the ...
NASA footage shows record ozone hole expansion
A gap in the ozone layer significantly expanded, the nation's civilian space agency said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed the layer protecting Earth from harmful solar radiation severely depleted on Oct.29. The ozone hole above Antarctica is the biggest it has ever been at 9.6 million square miles (24.8 ...
Serbian town suffers air pollution from Chinese owned steel mill
Five years after taking over a steel mill in central Serbia, residents of Radinac town are calling for the facility to be shut down due to the dust contaminant it releases. The facility, Smedrevo, emits fumes of red-hued smoke that leave the municipality covered in dust described as "greasy" and troubling ...
Chinese solar panels are not environmentally friendly and violate ethical standards of economics, experts warn
If you thought solar panels were environmentally friendly, you might need to think again. Most solar panels are imported into the U.S., making them cheaper. However, critics claim their production in other countries, such as China, is not helping the environment. "Most of [the panels] are produced with energy from carbon-dioxide-belching, coal-burning ...
China faces economically crippling power shortage
At least five provinces in mainland China have restricted power use, and suspended or reduced production. Many public companies were forced to pause trading, after some corporations deferred output until after Oct. 1. They blame significant financial losses on electricity consumption regulations. Beijing recently introduced a rigorous electricity regulation. Local media criticized ...
Plane drops thousands of live fish into Utah lake mid-flight
Thousands of juvenile trout spectacularly descended from airborne planes into Utah lakes on July 9. Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources has caught on camera the moment a cargo-load of live fish landed in a remote lake. The footage, which has since gone viral, shows a small plane flying over a forest. Suddenly ...
Biden must guarantee infrastructure bill excludes Green New Deal says GOP Senate Leader McConnell
A Republican from Kentucky wants the president to give his word that no new infrastructure funding will be spent on environmental ambitions. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants Joe Biden to guarantee a bipartisan infrastructure bill will not include millions to meet left-wing Green New Deal targets. "The president has appropriately delinked ...
Utahn takes 20 years to build huge modern guest house in desert cave
A Utah man spent decades realizing his dream of living in a desert cave with a modern twist and invites everyone to spend the night. Grant Johnson loves the idea of living inside a natural underground chamber. The long-term Boulder resident spent about eight years blasting a hole in a hillside, ...
The global Trillion Tree Campaign: Trump signs executive order for environmental protection
On Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, the president of the United States signed an executive order to join the global Trillion Tree Campaign to protect forests, grasslands, and federal reserves and help plant, restore, and protect 1 trillion trees around the world, the Washington Examiner reported. The executive order follows the president's ...
The US energy sector is the largest in the world thanks to deregulation
The deregulation implemented by the Trump administration strengthened the energy sector, allowing for increased productivity and lower energy prices, to benefit U.S. consumers. The United States also became a net exporter of crude and refined oil, achieving broad-based dominance of the sector for the first time since 1949, according to a ...
California governor signs bill limiting oil, gas development
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a law intended to counter Trump administration plans to increase oil and gas production on protected public land. The measure bars any California leasing authority from allowing pipelines or other oil and gas infrastructure to be built on state property. It makes it difficult ...
Lone sixth-grader protestor showed up for climate strike in her town: “What a champion!”
While hordes of learners and youth showed up supporting greater protection of the environment in the biggest worldwide strike of its kind ever to take place, there was one town that did not manage to garner as much manpower. One lonely protester, sixth-grader Ariel Ehlers, was the only one to ...
Scientists: July was hottest month on record
U.S. government scientists on Aug. 15 confirmed that July was the hottest month on record, edging out the previous record-holder, July 2016. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the global average temperature last month was 62.1 degrees. That is 0.05 degree higher than July 2016, and 1.7 degrees higher ...
Hannity to de Blasio: ‘You drive me crazy!’
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio sparred, clashed and laughed with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday when the Democratic presidential hopeful faced the conservative TV titan. For one hour on cable news' top-rated show, their raised voices overlapped as they disagreed on taxation of the wealthy, gun control, abortion ...
Trump EPA rolls back Obama rule on coal-fired power plants
The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution. Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, signed a replacement rule that ...
Presidential hopeful John Hickenlooper calls for carbon tax
A carbon tax is part of the climate plan that Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is backing. He's the latest candidate to outline a plan to combat global warming. Along with the carbon tax, the former Colorado governor would spend $350 billion on green infrastructure and efficient cars, rejoin the Paris climate ...
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