by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 9, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Climate change experts and advocates told a House committee Tuesday that sustainability pledges made by Big Oil companies mask the fact that their continued oil production means climate goals laid out in the Paris Agreement cannot be achieved....
by Andrew Marquardt and Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Feb 8, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month. The IEA, which publishes a series...
by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 3, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON–Lawmakers on Wednesday took steps that could close gaps in data on recycling facilities and programs in the United States and provide funding for pilot programs to improve recycling in underserved communities. “As part of the Infrastructure...
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by Isabel Miller | Jan 26, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Instead of sleeping in on Saturday morning, over a hundred volunteers turned to a day of action in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Volunteers donned red gloves and headed into Pope Branch Park to collect trash––from plastic bottles to...
by Cristobella Durrette | Jan 21, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Thursday grappled with balancing the energy consumption of cryptocurrency’s mining process alongside the opportunities for blockchain technology at a House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing. “Blockchain...
by Isabel Miller | Jan 20, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Democrat lawmakers said President Joe Biden is not doing enough to stop offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico during a House subcommittee meeting Thursday. The criticism came during a House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources session, which...
