Tagged: Climate & Environment
President Barack Obama made his highly-anticipated, and long-awaited announcement on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio “The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL pipeline would not...
“Shell No!” is again a rallying cry for environmentalists in Western Washington committed to derailing the oil giant’s plans to build a rail spur for its Puget Sound refinery. Years of derailments and explosions...
TransCanada, the company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, has asked the State Department to pause the review process of its pipeline application – just as the president was expected to issue a final...
China has officially agreed to make a more than $9 billion investment in the construction of three new nuclear power stations in Britain. The deal, announced by President Xi Jinping today during a state...
The final phase of negotiations for a global strategy to combat climate change is off to a rocky start with developing nations accusing the richest nations – and the United States in particular –...
Florida is known as the Sunshine State but it lags behind many other states in producing solar energy. One reason is that the state’s legislature set up a legal roadblock that requires residents to...
Marine corals are currently experiencing a mass die-off known as a “global bleaching event.” For the third time since researchers first observed this phenomenon in the late 90s, reefs are turning white and dying...
Many symphonies have been written as musical testaments to war – Shostakovitch’s “Leningrad”, written to honor the estimated 25 million Soviets who lost their lives in World War II, is just one example. But...
An estimated 32 million people who grew up Catholic in the U.S. have left the church in recent decades, an exodus driven in part by the perception that its teachings are irreconcilable with modern...
A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. has refused to block implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. President Obama and the EPA published the final draft of the CPP in early...