NEWS + RESEARCH
A 2025 Update On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
(June 28, 2025) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a swirling plastic wasteland, bigger than France and packed with up to 3.6 trillion pieces of trash. It’s choking sea life, darkening the ocean, and no country wants to clean it up. Most of it comes from everyday plastic waste that never goes away.
Journey to Destroy PFAS
(June 28, 2025) PFAS are used in many everyday items, but their pollution can end lives. However, promising advancements are being made every year by scientists working tirelessly to solve forever chemicals’ forever problems.
How to Read a Sustainability Report (Without Falling Asleep) and Use It as a Conscientious Consumer
(June 26, 2025) Want to know if a company’s sustainability claims are real or just greenwashing? This simple guide shows you how to quickly read a report and spot the brands truly making a difference—so you can shop smarter and support companies that share your values.
Outside of the Amazon: The World's Largest Rainforests
(June 24, 2025) There are hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest land across the world and on almost every continent. Deforestation, natural resource extraction, wildlife harm, and pollution threaten the future of these ecosystems, and we must do everything we can to protect them.
Celebrating Juneteenth: The Black History of the Environmental Justice Movement
(June 19, 2025) Since its inception, Black Americans have been vital to the environmental justice movement in the U.S. This Juneteenth, let us highlight the people who began the movement and all of its achievements throughout the decades.
World Day to Combat Desertification & Drought: Somalia in Crisis
(June 17, 2025) Today, six million Somalians are in need of urgent humanitarian aid, with half of the population experiencing water insecurity. 80 percent of Somalia is experiencing severe drought conditions, with 2.6 million Somalians facing water shortages.
Challenging American Taboos: European Wind Industry
(June 15, 2025) While wind energy is a hot button issue in the United States, it has become widespread across Europe, and is supported by many Europeans.
Are Tariffs Undermining America's Battery Supply Chain?
(June 14, 2025) U.S. tariffs on batteries are slowing clean energy progress and increasing costs. This threatens to delay the shift to electric vehicles and renewable energy.
What is ESG—and What Can You Do About It?
(June 13, 2025) In today’s world, it’s not enough for companies to focus solely on profits—people want to know how businesses impact the planet, society, and their own employees.
Change the Chamber Statement on EPA’s Reckless Proposal to Gut Climate and Clean Air Protections
(June 12, 2025) Change the Chamber calls on policymakers across the political spectrum to reject these reckless attacks on environmental safeguards and defend the right to clean air, clean water, and a livable future for all.
Warmer Oceans are Not the Positive Spring Breakers May Think
(June 8, 2025) Our ocean covers around 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, but harbors about ninety percent of global warming. The amount of heat energy the ocean has absorbed over the last six decades is more than eight times the amount of energy humans used over that time period for cooking, electricity, industry, heating, etc.
National Prairie Day: The Undervalued Landscape of North America
(June 7, 2025) From southern Canada to Indiana and Colorado, the American prairie lands were once home to a diverse range of species thriving in uninterrupted geography. In America today, only one percent of native prairies remain.
Change the Chamber Statement on the Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Proposal
(June 5, 2025) At a time of record-breaking emissions, intensifying extreme weather events, and ongoing rollbacks of environmental protections, this is no moment to weaken the institutions that protect people and the planet.
Room Outside of Doom: Climate Wins of the First Third of 2025
(May 30, 2025) In a world where good news feels rare, especially in the fight against climate change, it’s more important than ever to pause and celebrate the wins we’ve all worked so hard for.
Protect the Pacific Island Heritage Marine National Monument
(May 30, 2025) The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument protects a vast and diverse ocean ecosystem vital to both wildlife and Indigenous cultures. Now, new threats put decades of conservation efforts at risk.