Connecticut s General Assembly is weighing several climate change bills. It comes after what advocates describe as detrimental inaction on the legislative body s part in the last two years. This is due to misinformation, Republican filibusters, and committee inaction. .
By Enrique Saenz for Mirror Indy.Broadcast version by Joe Ulery for Indiana News Service reporting for the Mirror Indy-Free Press Indiana-Public News Service Collaboration. Earth Month in Indianapolis has gotten off to a wet start. In just a single day, April 2, the city received about half the rainfall it usually gets the entire month. .
Environmental activists are rallying today in Sunnyvale, asking the American company Ruby River Capital to drop a lawsuit the protesters called "a grave threat" to climate action. Ruby River is suing the government of Canada after the government denied permits for a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas terminal in Quebec. Clayton Tucker, climate organizer for the Trade Justice Education Fund, said the suit initially asked arbitrators to fine the government $20 billion for loss of future profits but then scaled the request down to $1 billion. .