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Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy under a new law the Republican governor signed this week, even though it's a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, said that the company believes they have enough knowledge to manage environmental risks. They plan to submit applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the deep seas within the next three months.

As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism

A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Closing arguments unfolded earlier in the day in the lawsuit brought by Dallas-based Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access against Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. The plaintiffs alleged defamation, trespass, nuisance, civil conspiracy and other acts by the Greenpeace entities to stop the pipeline.

British officials were concerned about possible environmental damage Tuesday and looking for answers a day after a cargo ship carrying a toxic chemical hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England, setting both vessels ablaze.

Advocacy groups are better prepared than the first term for legal challenges – but will the administration obey rulings?

Bill Darnell has been helping protect what we love since he helped found Greenpeace in 1970. He recalls the meetings always ended with one member, Irving Stone, making the peace sign and saying “peace.” I suggested we make it a green peace, and “Greenpeace” was born! 

A Texas pipeline company's lawsuit seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from Greenpeace was set to advance with opening statements Wednesday in a trial the environmental organization calls an effort to silence critics of the oil industry.

The lawsuit stems from the protests in 2016 and 2017 over the oil pipeline's planned Missouri River crossing, upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation.

Delegates will meet soon in South Korea in their last scheduled gathering to get a grip on plastic pollution, with health and the environment on the line.

At a summit in Hungary last month organized by the right wing Heritage Foundation and Danube Institute, head of the Canadian Gas Association Timothy Egan delivered a pro-fossil fuel, anti-climate change speech that railed against the push to cut emissions.

Companies that make plastic argue there is no need for caps, because alternatives to plastics are often more expensive and energy-intensive.

Micro and nanoplastics are implicated in health deficits and disorders, including heart attacks and Parkinson’s disease.

The federal government announced a new registry to track plastic production to set the tone as negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty kick off on April 23 in Ottawa.