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1.5 Degrees of Global Warming—Are We There Yet?

ExplainerUnited States, InternationalMolly Bergen
Here’s where the world stands in its fight against climate change. The end goal remains the same.
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The Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference—What Now?

ExplainerUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
For one, the ability of federal agencies like the EPA to set rules and enforce environmental protections now shrinks.
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It’s Time to Talk about Climate Anxiety

ExplainerUnited StatesJenny Shalant
Don’t bottle it up—openly acknowledging your climate anxiety and grief gives you the power to heal and move forward.

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Pebble Mine: Into the Lion’s Den

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Junior Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty Minerals – owner of the beleaguered Pebble Mine – held its annual shareholder meeting in Vancouver last week. We were there, too, to deliver a message of relentless opposition to the ill-conceived project.

House Votes to Suspend Pebble Mine Funding

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an appropriations package, with an amendment to bar funding for the Pebble Mine permitting process.

LA Kids Love the Ocean

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
For more than a quarter of a century, Los Angeles kids have united to honor and protect the ocean. Yesterday’s 26th Annual Kids Ocean Day was no different, inspiring thousands of kids, teachers and volunteers to brave the wind and…

Alaskans Emphatically Tell the Army Corps “No Pebble Mine”

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
More than 900 people gathered to oppose the Pebble Mine yesterday in Anchorage, Alaska. Hundreds rallied outside the Dena’ina convention center where inside the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held the last of several public hearings on its draft Environmental…

Pebble Mine’s Financial Woes Worsen

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Northern Dynasty Minerals’ 2018 Annual Report Reveals “Substantial Doubt,” Net Loss, Low Cash, and an Urgent Need for an Investor.

Pebble Foes Run Ads Remembering the Mount Polley Disaster

Expert BlogUnited StatesTaryn Kiekow Heimer

Four years ago this month, a major breach occurred in an earthen dam built to contain millions of tons of mining waste at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley copper and gold mine in British Columbia. It remains the worst environmental mining…

Poll Finds Overwhelming Local Opposition to the Pebble Mine

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
A new poll found that an overwhelming majority of Bristol Bay residents continue to oppose the Pebble Mine and believe it poses a threat to the region’s commercial, sports, and subsistence fisheries.

Former EPA Administrators Say “No” to Pebble Mine in DC Ads

Expert BlogUnited StatesTaryn Kiekow Heimer

Last week as EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made even more of a mockery out of his agency’s mission to actually protect the environment by throwing yet another lifeline to the disastrous Pebble Mine, several former EPA Administrators responded with a…

No Pebble Mine Ad Targets Northern Dynasty’s Annual Meeting

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
“We will never relent in our fight against the Pebble Mine,” reads the full-page ad running today in the Vancouver Sun as Northern Dynasty Minerals and its shareholders gather for the company’s annual meeting in Vancouver. “Because Bristol Bay, Alaska…

Pruitt Cozies Up to Pebble Mine, Hamstrings EPA Authority

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a memo proposing to gut his own authority under the Clean Water Act to block or restrict highly destructive projects, such as the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Alaska Ad: First Quantum Was Right to Dump the Pebble Mine

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Groups ran a full-page ad in the Anchorage Daily News celebrating First Quantum Minerals’ departure from the controversial Pebble Mine—a colossal gold and copper mine proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay’s legendary salmon runs.

L.A. Kids Make Waves for a Plastic-Free Ocean

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Kids Ocean Day—a day that inspired nearly 4,500 Los Angeles-area children to clean up nearby beaches—celebrated its 25th anniversary last Thursday.

Iceland to Resume Hunt of Endangered Fin Whales

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Iceland’s only fin whaling company Hvalur hf is set to resume its controversial hunt of endangered fin whales after a two-year break. Its 2018 whaling season will open on June 10th with the highest quotas in decades.

Full-Page Ad Urges First Quantum to Dump the Pebble Mine

Expert BlogTaryn Kiekow Heimer
Opponents of the Pebble Mine appeared today in Toronto at the annual meeting of First Quantum Minerals with a message for its shareholders: We will never relent in our fight against the Pebble Mine.