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Cyril Fourneris, How is the European Union combating greenwashing? Euronews (26 June 2024)
New EU measures to combat ‘greenwashing’ are aiming to challenge companies promoting so-called sustainable products.
The EU must stand up to Trump on cars – Transport & Environment
Caving in to Trump’s demands to recognise US car standards as equivalent to Europe would be a grave error
1 May 2025UK government’s climate advisors warn against airport expansion
Critical need to cut transport emissions to meet UK climate targe[ts
1 Apr 2025A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn
A SLAPP lawsuit trying to silence Greenpeace
1 Mar 2025Bob Berwyn, Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires
A new attribution analysis found that climate heating caused by burning fossil fuels significantly increased the likelihood of extreme fire conditions.
1 Feb 2025European gas imports nearly a third more polluting than previously thought
Transport & Environment
1 Jan 2025Climate Brief: US election fallout on UN COP 29
Just days before COP29, Donald Trump won the US election on a campaign promising to roll back climate action and take the world’s biggest …
1 Dec 2024The Growth of Agricultural Litigation
The role of litigation in shaping a brighter EU food and farming system.
1 Oct 2024What’s the deal with terms like “greenhouse effect,” “global warming,” “climate change,” and “the climate emergency”?
The way we talk about the problem has shifted dramatically over time.
1 Sep 2024Irish Doctors for the Environment call on local councillors
To reduce emissions, improve population health, and restore the natural world
1 Jul 2024Europe’s transport sector set to make up almost half of the continent’s emissions in 2030
Transport sector as the “problem child” of Europe’s climate efforts
1 Apr 2024The Times Beach, Missouri dioxin disaster and how it ended the career of Ronald Reagan’s Head of the US EPA, Anne Gorsuch Burford
Her son is US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who seems dedicated to following his mother in undermining the US EPA.
1 Feb 2024COP 28: It was as if Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald appeared
singing a climate change “Indian love’ song
1 Jan 2024The Writing on the Climate Wall: businesses can read it but are they heeding it.
An Update
1 Nov 2023Hydrogen heating: future fuel or throwback?
Assessing purported benefits of green hydrogen gas for home heating
1 Oct 2023The Irish Farmers Association seems annoyed
Their unfolding attacks on Pádraic Fogarty and the Irish EPA
1 Aug 2023Love Canal: America’s infamous toxic waste site
What happened at this toxic waste site
1 Jul 2023About Clean Cities
The Clean Cities Campaign is a European coalition aiming to encourage cities to transition to zero-emission mobility by 2030
1 Jun 2023