Huge Victory in Seneca Lake: After Years of Protest, Gas Storage Project Abandoned
By Nika Knight, Common Dreams
After a years-long popular resistance against a proposed fracked gas storage project in Seneca Lake, N.Y., the people have emerged victorious. The Arlington Storage Company announced Wednesday that it was finally abandoning a contentious plan to store fracked gas in unlined salt caverns along the pristine lake in New York's Finger Lakes region.
‘Sheer Reckless Folly’: Trump Destroys Obama-Era Climate Rules
By Nika Knight, Common Dreams
President Donald Trump on Tuesday set about aggressively dismantling Obama-era climate policies with an executive order decried as "sheer reckless folly," which will increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the climate crisis.
Anthropocene Math in the Age of Trump
By Nika Knight, Common Dreams
As the Trump administration and Republicans in power in Congress set to work destroying environmental regulations, scientists have added urgency to the resistance with a simple new equation that shows the staggering effect human activity has had on the climate. Their findings? Humans have altered the climate 170 times faster than natural forces.
Filmmaker Faces 45 Years in Prison for Reporting on Dakota Access Protests
By Nika Knight, Common Dreams
In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison—simply for reporting on the ongoing Indigenous protests against fossil fuel infrastructure.
Court Rejects Dakota Access Injunction, But Standing Rock Sioux Vow ‘This is Not The End’
By Nika Knight, Common Dreams
A U.S. federal court of appeals ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe late Sunday evening and denied its request for an emergency injunction against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.