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Earlier this year, Stand.earth Research Group calculated that a single Microsoft data center facility in West Virginia powered entirely with onsite methane gas generators was set to increase the company’s annual data center climate pollution by a whopping 44%. Now, sources are suggesting that Microsoft quietly abandoned the project, declining to comment on the news. […]

Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) –  Reacting to the news that the controversial Tilbury LNG expansion has been approved by BC Ministers Dix, Davidson, and Federal Ministers Dabrusin today, Stand.earth Oceans Campaigner, Anna Barford, said: “We came out and raised our voices in the community we built around a public comment period when we […]

A new analysis finds NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization, has been using greenwashing tricks to misleadingly mask its staggering emissions impacts.  The briefing, written by analyst and lead author Ketan Joshi and a consortium of civil society groups, including Greenpeace International, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Friends of the Earth, Green Screen Coalition, […]

Traditional unceded territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat | TORONTO – As Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes foreign billionaires and their representatives to Toronto for his ‘Canada Investment Summit’, a new report, Making Canada Weaker: How Carney’s American-owned Ksi Lisims LNG is a sinkhole for […]

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Just 15 global fashion companies could help Bangladesh avoid an estimated 8.59 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2040 by funding and enabling an energy transition away from fossil fuels, according to a new Stand.earth Research Group (SRG) analysis, titled Fashion’s Fair Share: Bangladesh Buyers’ Climate Opportunity. However, the brands wielding this purchasing power — […]

This Opinion Editorial originally appeared in Tagesspiegel, a leading German news publication on September 8th, 2026 My name is Gwii Lok’im Gibuu; colonially known as Jesse Stoeppler. I am a member of the Wilp Spookwx, a Housegroup of the Gitxsan First Nation and the co-executive director of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, an organization that […]

OTTAWA (TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE) – The last 75 southern resident killer whales are worth more than pipelines. Members of Parliament have the power to protect them. That’s the message that Canadians across several major cities will be seeing and hearing as environmentalists raise the alarm about new legislation which is […]

As our communities grapple with deadly heat waves, smoky skies, sweeping floods, canceled harvests, and rising costs, it’s clearer than ever that the continued burning of fossil fuels is the single greatest threat facing our planet today. It’s past time to end the production of new fossil fuels, enact clear transition plans, and accelerate the […]

VINELAND, N.J. – Community and environmental groups are demanding answers from Microsoft after an investigation alleged that an AI data center backed by the company in Vineland, N.J. has been running dozens of gas generators without permits, in direct violation of federal and state law. According to the investigation published earlier today by Floodlight and […]

This month, as we celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Stand.earth speaks with Luene Karipuna, a leader of the Karipuna people from Oiapoque, Brazil. At 27, Luene is the first young woman to serve as executive coordinator of the organization representing 11 Indigenous Peoples in Amapá and northern Pará. Her journey is […]

With El Nino peering over our shoulders, wildfires growing, and heat waves extending… the feelings of Summer 2026 are far from over. The climate and biodiversity crisis are on full display, and so is the Stand.earth community and environmental movement. With that in mind we unequivocally  blew it out of the water as everyone came […]

Originally published on the German news site Table.Media on 21, July 2026 Authors: Diego Pedraza and Melina Pressentin, experts with Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Environmental Action Germany) We are currently experiencing our second fossil fuel price crisis in just four years. This is the price we pay for our dependence on fossil fuels. The cost spikes caused […]

A community organizer stands in an old growth cutblock in the Upper Walbran, September 2025.   Stand.earth’s Forest Eye watchdog platform combines satellite imagery, remote sensing, and government data to detect logging in the most rare and at-risk old growth forests in British Columbia. Every alert on Forest Eye represents a threatened forest. Now, using […]

By Amy Gray, Associate Climate Finance Director, Stand.earth   In 2022, more than a thousand Google employees signed a letter telling their own company something uncomfortable: the 401(k) plan wasn’t climate safe. Google’s default retirement option, the Vanguard Target Date Retirement Fund series, didn’t factor climate risk into its holdings at all. Workers organized. Google added […]

səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories (VANCOUVER, B.C.) Commenting on German government-owned Uniper signing a 2032 supply agreement with yet-to-be-built Ksi Lisims LNG, Richard Brooks, Climate Finance Director with Stand.earth said: “This is a major step backwards for climate action by both the German and Canadian governments who have pulled out all the […]

Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) –  As the Tilbury LNG expansion public period ends today, over 690 comments have come through the webform, outpacing the previous comment period’s 272 entries. The total number of comments is expected to grow as more are trickling through the BC EAO’s filter. Commenters articulated concerns; including air pollution […]

Here at Stand.earth, we are working toward a climate-safe, fossil-free future in which governments affirm the dignity of all — because we’ve held them accountable. Corporations sell products made exclusively from responsible sources, and with renewable energy — because the collective pressure we’ve exerted makes it impossible not to. Energy grids around the world provide […]

Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) –  The B.C. government’s announcement Friday morning of plans to proceed with the controversial Tilbury LNG expansion project is in direct opposition to the best interests of coastal communities and vulnerable species of wildlife, as well as a violation of the will of the public — even as a […]

Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Nations | VANCOUVER, B.C. — New optical gas imaging (OGI) shows FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG is releasing unmonitored and uncontrolled amounts of harmful uncombusted and partially combusted pollutants, as part of the facility’s current operations. At this very moment, expansion plans for the facility, located in Metro Vancouver […]

A shorter version of this OpEd appeared in The Hill Times July 20th, 2026 The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has a clear mandate: to invest in projects that drive economic growth, support Canada’s low-carbon transition, and foster genuine economic reconciliation. When functioning at its best, the CIB is a catalyst for public good – a […]