By Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois, and Noelle Martin The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp…
Local chefs and restaurateurs fear loss of alternative wholesalers By Em Cassel Without Restaurant Depot, Dahlia might not exist. The buzzy northeast Minneapolis bakery got its start in 2022 as a pop-up, bringing its inventive…
Commentary by Steve Hendricks You may ask why, despite the growth in renewables, we keep burning more carbon than ever. The answer is simple: We—and here We means both the great mass of people and…
By Brian Bienkowski A Wisconsin project dubbed the “world’s largest manure biogas project” emits nearly 5,000 metric tons of climate-warming methane annually, roughly equivalent to emissions from 30,000 gasoline-powered vehicles, according to state data that…
By Rachel Ramirez For Solomon Pili Kaho’ohalahala, a Native Hawaiian elder known as “Uncle Sol” from the island of Lana’i, the ocean is his lifeline. Over the past few years, he has become the voice…
By George Wuerthner The Trump administration, in a March 2026, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), mandates that livestock production be given priority use on public lands. The administration has declared a “no net loss of Animal…
It’s a Secret. By Lisa Sorg Tax breaks for data centers in North Carolina keep as much as $57 million each year from state and local government coffers, state figures show, an amount that could…
“Environmental” groups selling out frontline communities to support data centers By Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright The President has repaid his Big Tech donors with a series of favorable policies designed to fast track the approval and…
By Al Mayadeen English Microsoft and other American technology corporations successfully pushed the EU to adopt a confidentiality clause that blocks public access to environmental data from individual datacentres. Microsoft and other US tech giants…
China’s proposed AI law establishes measures to prevent AI harms By Luiza Jarovsky, PhD China has recently launched a public consultation on its proposed new law on AI anthropomorphism, titled “Interim Measures for the Administration…