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What Is FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund? What You Should Know, Why Costs Keep Rising and What We Can Do About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. According to FEMA, since 2001, the agency has implemented INF restrictions 9 times, including last year. Unfortunately, disaster costs have been steadily rising.

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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action. billion in 2016 to $11.6

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Conservative Party received 40 percent of its donations from fossil fuel interests in the first week of the campaign

A Greener Life

million since 2001. In 2022, BHP’s petroleum business merged with the energy company Woodside, with the new firm being 48 percent owned by BHP shareholders, creating a “global top 10 independent energy company”. Fellow Tory peer Lord Farmer has donated an additional £317,000 to the party since the last election, and £8.8

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy [PaEN] -- Explainer: So Why Does A Susquehanna County Gas Company Have To Raise Rates 33.2% 9 Online Coffee Hour On Youth Movements And Politics Of Climate Change -- TribLive: Learn About Fly Fishing, Spineless Creatures At Buffalo Creek Watershed Festival Sept. Of Geography Hosts Sept.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party. Tory peer Lord Michael Farmer has also donated £8.8