Environment

UN’s Top Court Rules ‘Clean, Healthy’ Environment Is A Human Right

July 25, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Environment, Human Rights, International Court of Justice (ICJ), United Nations

In a landmark finding, the United Nations’ top court on Wednesday issued an advisory opinion stating that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling supports the obligation of UN member states to tackle the climate crisis and outlines the consequences they could face if they fail to do so. “The consequences of climate change are severe and far-reaching: they affect both natural ecosystems and human populations. These consequences underscore the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change,” said ICJ president Yuji Iwasawa, as The Guardian reported.

Truckers Are Tired Of Being Exposed To Hazardous Waste

July 19, 2025 Kim Kelly, In These Times. Resist! Environment, health, Oil and Gas, Truckers, Workplace Safety

A seemingly unlikely coalition of oil and gas workers and environmentalists have joined forces to ask the federal government for help. On June 4, the driver advocacy group Truckers Movement for Justice and Ohio Valley Allies, Earthjustice, Oilfield Witness and several other environmental groups sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and top officials at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. They made a simple request: that regulations around the transportation of hazardous materials be enforced.

Fast Tracking A Pipeline To BC’s Coast Will Undermine Canada’s Security

July 16, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, Canada, Environment, Indigenous Sovereignty, Pipelines

“Now the real work starts.” These words from Prime Minister Mark Carney marked the rapid passage of Bill C-5, which grants sweeping powers to his cabinet to fast-track infrastructure projects. While his recent meeting with Canada’s premiers was described as a love-in, the love may be short lived if certain powerful industries don’t get the pony they thought they were promised. I speak of course of the oil patch and their relentless demands for more pipelines, whether they are needed or not. The long-dead Northern Gateway proposal to B.C.’s north coast seems to be top of the fossil fuel wish list, backed up by recent comments from Carney.

America Builds To Resist Disasters; The Global South Builds To Recover

July 6, 2025 Mohamed Ismail, Next City. Strategize! climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Global South, green housing

In the last few weeks, as the United States suffered through a record-breaking heatwave, people were instructed to take refuge in buildings with indoor air conditioning. This reliance on a system that runs on fossil fuels and contributes to nearly 20% of our greenhouse gas emissions also inevitably set us up for another, more severe heatwave. Even as the U.S. faces increasingly frequent – and deadly – climate change-related disasters, we continue to be caught off guard, treating them as short-term inconveniences and not the new normal. Science has proved that we are actively contributing to future climate devastation, and yet we continue to design buildings with an assumption that climate resilience means waiting out disasters, wasting significant energy fighting the symptoms while contributing to the illness.

This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia

July 5, 2025 Clare Carlile and Sara Sneath, DeSmog. Resist! Ammonia, Environment, pollution, Texas

Chris Carlton built his house in Ingleside, Texas in 2008, back when it was a sleepy fishing town. “We were this little pocket of paradise. This area was known for fishing long before it was known for petroleum.” Since then, more than a dozen oil and chemical facilities have sprung up along the coastline, drawn to the local area by access to Transatlantic shipping routes, the cheap supply of fossil fuels and lenient local regulators. Now, a new industry is rolling in – one with its sights firmly set on winning over the local community. In 2023, Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara teamed up with Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge, announcing plans to build the first ammonia plant in Ingleside.

Environmental And Indigenous Groups Mobilize To Stop ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

June 30, 2025 Stephen Prager, Common Dreams. Resist! Environment, Everglades, Florida, Prisons

As Florida's Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against it. Florida's Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail, at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun. According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southwest Florida, construction has moved at "a blistering pace," with the site expected to be done by next week.

Three Years Could Be Left To Limit Warming To 1.5 Degrees

June 21, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming

Leading climate scientists are warning that the timeframe to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is shrinking, and the world could have just three years left to prevent breaching this limit. Experts warn the threshold could be passed within the next few years, with Piers Forster, director at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at University of Leeds, noting that “Things are all moving in the wrong direction” with global heating and sea level rise, as reported by BBC. Forster lead a recent study with more than 60 leading climate scientists from around the world that determined countries have continued to “burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests,” which has left the 1.5 degree target of the Paris Agreement at risk.

20 Major Wins For Indigenous Rights In 2025

June 15, 2025 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Create! Amazon Rainforest, Colombia, Ecuador, Environment, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Landback, Landback Movement, Victoria Nuland, Victory

So far, 2025 has been a powerful year for Indigenous rights. Over the past 6 months we have seen many hard-fought victories and long-awaited acts of justice for Indigenous Peoples across the globe. While these wins vary in scale and geography, a common thread runs through them all: Indigenous leadership. Whether resisting oil drilling in the Peruvian Amazon, overturning mining projects in Arizona, or securing court protections for uncontacted peoples in Colombia and Ecuador, these movements reflect a resurgence of Indigenous authority in matters that directly affect their survival and future.

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Tribes To Restore Salmon

June 15, 2025 Tony Schick, Pro Publica. Educate! Biden administration, Dam Removal, Dams, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Joe Biden, Salmon, Trump Administration

Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.

Wai Bill Becomes Law: Major Victory For Water Protectors

June 10, 2025 Healani, Sonoda-Pale, Popular Resistance. Resist! Environment, Hawaii, Legislature, Red Hill, Water Protectors

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi — After more than two years of steadfast community advocacy and legislative effort, the Water Alliance Initiative Act—addressing long term clean up and remediation of Oahu’s water and land and protecting the water source for over 400,000 residents—was signed into law on Friday, June 6, 2025, and is now officially Act 197 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). This landmark law creates a WAI Policy Coordinator under the Department of Land and Natural Resources and establishes a Red Hill Remediation Special Fund to support long-term cleanup, monitoring, public education, and restoration of Oʻahu’s primary aquifer in the wake of the 2021 Red Hill fuel contamination crisis.

Residents Demand Answers On US-Owned Toxic Waste Dump Expansion

June 9, 2025 Éanna Mackey, Rabble. Resist! Canada, Environment, Quebec, Waste

An emergency provincial law passed in late March has allowed Stablex—an American waste disposal company— to expand its Blainville operations into ancient nearby wetlands — overriding local opposition, shutting down debate in the National Assembly, and drawing growing concern over environmental contamination. Bill 93, pushed through by the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government on March 28, forced the City of Blainville to sell over 60 hectares of public forest land to Stablex and granted the company immunity from legal consequences for any actions taken prior to April 15 — a federal deadline protecting bird nesting areas. The bill was described by opposition parties as custom-built for the American firm.

Yurok Tribe Acquires 47,000 Acres In California’s Largest Land-Back Deal

June 9, 2025 Chez Oxendine, Tribal Business News. Create! California, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Back, Salmon

The Yurok Tribe has gained control and stewardship of 73 square miles of land along the Klamath River in a $56 million transfer — the largest land-back deal in California’s history. The tribe announced on June 5 it had completed the final phase of the land-transfer partnership with Portland, Ore.-based nonprofit Western Rivers Conservancy, a process that began in 2022. With the land under their control, the Yurok have designated 15,000 acres of the 47,097-acre property as the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and established the remainder as the Yurok Community Forest. “The impact of this project is enormous,” Joseph L. James, chairman of the Yurok Tribe, said in a statement. “We are forging a sustainable future for the fish, forests and our people that honors both ecological integrity and our cultural heritage.”

Please Ensure That The Planet Does Not Burn

June 6, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Capitalism, climate crisis, COP30, Environment

It is important to emphasise the fact that environmental degradation has not been caused by humans in general, but by a certain system of organising society which we call capitalism. The problem with the term Anthropocene (which began to be used first by scientists, then by social scientists) is that it implies that humans – as an undifferentiated whole – have created the ecological crisis we are facing. This subtly downplays the role of the capitalist system and its accompanying class and national divides. However, data shows that humanity is using the equivalent of about 1.7 Earths to sustain our current consumption levels.

Brazil’s MST Promotes Agrarian Reform Amidst Environmental Crisis

June 4, 2025 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. Organize! Agrarian Reform, Brazil, Environment, Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), MST, Reforestation

Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) launched the third edition of Nature Day this Monday, an initiative that is part of its national plan “Plant Trees, Produce Healthy Food.” The goal is not only reforestation but also strengthening popular agrarian reform as an alternative to the current environmental crisis. This was stated by Camilo Augusto, project coordinator, in an interview with local media. Since 2021, the MST has promoted this event across Brazil, carrying out activities that include planting, seed distribution and mobilizing around environmental preservation.

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