ND Climate Change Activists

09/19/2026

Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year

09/19/2026

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the Solar for All funds in August 2025 after President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law passed in Congress a month earlier. Administrator Lee Zeldin called the program a “boondoggle.” District Judge Mary McElroy wrote in Friday’s ruling that Congress clearly intended for the EPA to continue administering the Solar for All grants that were already obligated. She says the EPA acted contrary to this intent. The Rhode Island AFL-CIO called the decision a big victory for states across the country.

09/17/2026

A landmark environmental report reveals that key solutions could trigger self-reinforcing 'positive tipping points' to repair the planet by 2030.

While the global dialogue around climate change often centers on catastrophic "negative tipping points"—such as the irreversible collapse of ice sheets or the dieback of the Amazon—a landmark report offers a powerful, hopeful alternative.

Released by The Earthshot Prize and the University of Exeter, the study details ready-to-go solutions capable of triggering rapid, self-reinforcing "positive tipping points" to repair the planet by 2030. According to the research, once clean technologies and sustainable practices cross a critical threshold of affordability and accessibility, they spark a cascading loop where progress becomes unstoppable, costs plummet, and private investment organically multiplies.

The report identifies clean energy as the ultimate "master cascade," with cheap solar and wind power already outcompeting fossil fuels and driving rapid adoption in electric mobility and green heating.

Additional self-propelling pathways include scaling clean cooking technology, protecting marine areas to naturally boost local fisheries, and utilizing supply-chain regulations to curb deforestation. By shifting global policy from incremental, slow-paced reforms to targeted interventions that unlock these feedback loops, governments and innovators can pave a fast, self-sustaining track toward global ecological recovery.

source: Smith, S. R. (2026). Positive Tipping Points: Accelerating system change to repair our planet. Green Futures Solutions, University of Exeter and The Earthshot Prize.

09/17/2026

US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire

09/17/2026

The United States hasn’t just ignored the threat of climate change at home; it has used its military and financial might to accelerate environmental destruction around the world.

In an interview with Jacobin, geographer Matt Huber explains how US imperialism stokes the fires of a burning planet: jacobin.com/2026/09/sweating-bullets

09/17/2026

Of course they’re celebrating: keep burning coal while the world burns.

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Leaders in North Dakota are celebrating a new ruling from the Environmental Protection Agency. This week, the EPA says it's repealed the Biden-era greenhouse gas regulations that were set to be in place for the next six years.

Read more: https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/nd-leaders-celebrating-epa-for-throwing-out-emissions-rules-for-coal-plants/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KX_News

09/17/2026

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

09/14/2026

BREAKING: WTF! Trump’s EPA is swinging a WRECKING BALL at one of America’s biggest climate safeguards.

It’s difficult to decide which group has had the most influence on the Trump administration’s latest decision to eliminate all federal limits on climate pollution from power plants, the second-largest source of greenhouse gases in America.

Is it the billionaire tech oligarchs who want no limits on the amount of electricity available to power the data centers powering the AI that even they now admit risks the destruction of civilization as we know it?

Or is it the Christo-fascists who fervently believe in humankind’s God-given right of dominion over the planet and are eager to hasten an apocalypse that would trigger the rapture that they believe will have them ascend into heaven, leaving the sinful leftovers to try to survive on the ravaged planet that they enabled into being.

In the end, it doesn’t really matter. Either way, the result is the same. After enduring the hottest summer in recorded human history, Trump and his deluded minions are planning to stop the regulation of the power plants that have brought this infernal inferno upon us all.

Insulting the intelligence of every American, the Trump administration is justifying its actions by making a legal argument so brazen it borders on self-parody: claiming this pollution doesn't actually endanger human health or the environment.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the rollback Monday at a G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston. If it survives legal challenges, it wouldn't just gut Biden-era regulations, it could permanently strip the EPA's legal authority to regulate power plant emissions at all, potentially locking future administrations out of ever restoring these protections.

Let's be clear about the scale here. If the U.S. power sector were its own country, it would rank as the fifth-largest climate polluter on Earth, behind only China, the rest of the United States combined, India, and Russia. Manish Bapna of the Natural Resources Defense Council didn't mince words: "This is another nail in the coffin for this administration's commitment to protecting people and tackling the climate crisis. The E.P.A. is ending its legal and moral responsibility to end climate pollution."

And the human cost isn't abstract. The Biden-era rule this move erases was projected to prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital visits, 360,000 asthma attacks, and 57,000 lost workdays annually by 2035, alongside $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047. Trump's EPA has conveniently stopped calculating public health benefits altogether in its cost-benefit analyses, now measuring only costs to businesses.

This is the same EPA that already eliminated tailpipe emissions standards, loosened restrictions on planet-warming refrigerant chemicals, and repealed the core scientific finding that originally gave the agency authority to regulate climate pollution in the first place. Each move systematically dismantles decades of bipartisan environmental protection, one legal technicality at a time.

And the timing is particularly cynical: utilities are racing to build new gas plants specifically to power energy-hungry AI data centers, meaning this rollback isn't really about struggling coal plants. It's about clearing regulatory obstacles for a booming new wave of fossil fuel infrastructure, dressed up as relief for an industry that's actually been declining for decades anyway.

Harvard's Carrie Jenks summed up the real strategy: "They are swinging from the fences to try to prevent any administration from regulating one of the largest sources of emissions for the United States." Democratic states and environmental groups are already preparing legal challenges, but the damage from years of unchecked pollution could take decades to reverse.

If you didn’t have sufficient motivation to vote any Trump-enablers out of office in November prior to this disastrous decision, perhaps the threat of becoming the frog in a pot of water slowly coming to a boil will finally convince you.

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