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The White House disputes complaints from radical leftists, who say the bipartisan infrastructure deal does not sufficiently address climate change-related concerns.

Secret Service arrested “dozens” of climate change activists who blocked entrances to the White House on Monday demanding the Biden administration prioritize Green New Deal initiatives in current infrastructure talks.

Bully for BoJo and his globalist green agenda — but this isn’t a world view that any normal person in Britain actually shares.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blamed climate change for flooding that occurred in Detroit last weekend, but dozens of pumping stations lacked power.

Police arrested 23 Extinction Rebellion activists after the eco-alarmist group targeted media organisations in London with horse manure.

The European Parliament has formally set a goal to make the entire European Union carbon neutral by 2050.

A trip to the store turned into an interesting encounter with wildlife Monday for a couple living in St. Cloud, Florida.

Meet Sir David King, climate jackal. He and his fellow scavengers are moving in to feed on the denuded carcass of our freedoms.

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), described American children as an “environmental hazard” while advocating for slowing U.S. population growth in her 1992 graduate thesis.

CA Gov. Newsom “overstated by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns” to prevent wildfires.

Almost all teachers in England believe that an “action-focused climate change curriculum” should be incorporated across subjects, with more than half saying that secondary school pupils should be taught to protest global warming.

Be afraid. Once the coronavirus pandemic is done and dealt with, a draft United Nations report warned Wednesday searing, unrelenting heat could next lay waste to large swathes of the planet, killing millions who have no means to escape a massive climate change event.

Leonardo DiCaprio may be a made man in Hollywood but in Belize, local residents and fishermen have protested and blocked construction of his planned luxury, eco-friendly resort for almost 16 years.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) condemned the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival – and the open-air slaughter of animals for food – in a statement to Breitbart News on Monday as “pandemic petri dishes” that perpetuate animal suffering and spread disease.

Comedian Bill Maher has not-so-jokingly threatened to leave California, arguing that the state continues to mismanage its water supply in the face of chronic droughts and wildfires. On Friday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the Los Angeles-based

“…our country belongs at the top on climate protection and it must become better able to resist pandemics, cyberattacks, populism…”

LA AG Jeff Landry said a judge reinstating the leasing of public lands and waters for oil and gas production is “great news for America.”

Authorities are telling Californians to conserve electricity Thursday evening, as a heat wave that coincides with a severe drought that has limited the availability of hydroelectric power to the state.

German climate scientist Markus Rex warned this week that humanity may have already passed the tipping point for irreversible global warming.

The Mediterranean is turning into a tropical sea due to rising global temperatures, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned in a June report.

The meeting of the G7 nations proved that Boris Johnson is closer to a Green Party politician than an actual Conservative, said Nigel Farage.

Elite donors have forced a “Green Revolution” upon Africa in recent years that has failed to improve local agriculture sectors as promised and instead “increased farm input costs, farmer indebtedness, and inequalities among farmers,” environmental experts writing for the non-profit media outlet The Conversation reported on Monday.

The death toll from a gas explosion near a residential community in central China’s Shiyan city on Sunday rose to 25 on Monday as Chinese government authorities continued efforts to rescue and treat survivors of the blast and determine its cause.

A massive chemical fire erupted Monday at a plant in Rockton, Illinois, prompting authorities to order residents to evacuate and Gov. J. B. Pritzker (D) to activate the National Guard. 

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), ranking member on the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. James Comer (R-KY), ranking member on the Committee on Oversight and Reform, are demanding details on John Kerry’s unclear role as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, particularly expressing concern on “where the role appears to intersect with the U.S. response to a hostile foreign regime such as the Chinese Communist Party.”

“Motorists are paying, on average, 37 percent more to fill up than the start of the year,” a AAA spokesperson said.

A majority of American voters disagree with President Joe Biden’s statement that global warming is the “greatest threat” to America, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.

An electric coach which drove from London to the G7 site to promote green energy is stranded because it could not find anywhere to recharge.

French nuclear power company Framatome said on Monday it has detected a “performance issue” at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, which it operates in partnership with the state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN).

The leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries – with the notable exception of China – published a joint statement following the end of the G7 summit on Sunday vowing a “new deal” for the continent of Africa and heavy investment in a “green revolution” for the world.

President Joe Biden faces continuing resistance from Senate Democrats over his infrastructure, despite only needing 50 Senate Democrats to pass his gargantuan legislation.

(AFP) — G7 leaders were on Sunday urged to take urgent action to secure the future of the planet, as they finalised new conservation and emissions targets to curb climate change, and wrapped up a three-day summit where revived Western unity has been on show.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) stated we are “out of time” on climate change and must act on the subject now because “We’re at the buzzer. We’ve got to take the shot. There’s no

Environmentalists are praising lawmakers in Maine for passing legislation to divest the state’s pension investment and other funds from fossil fuel companies.

President Joe Biden’s administration agreed Thursday to give nearly $1 billion in federal money back to California that President Donald Trump rescinded in 2019 after Governor Gavin Newsom canceled the state’s high-speed rail project.

Farmers are unhappy with the prospect of Biden’s EPA reversing Trump’s protections from harsh water regulations under the Clean Water Act.