Environment

Climate CrimesEverything So Far Has Failed: Why Exxon Mobil Is Being Taken to Court Over Climate Change

A New York trial marks the first in a wave of court cases seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry to account for the climate emergency.

Forged in Fire: California’s Lessons for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein – Nov. 7

Days before the anniversary of the deadly Camp Fire that killed 86 people, a community in California unveiled a plan to adopt its own Green New Deal.

From Climate Denial to “Green” Petroleum: Massachusetts Accuses Exxon Mobil of Deceptive Messaging

Alleen Brown – Oct. 31

The climate liability lawsuit filed in Massachusetts, broader than similar litigation in New York, describes Exxon Mobil’s evolving deception playbook.

Climate CrimesHow Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable

Amelia Urry – Oct. 27

Companies are selling more cheap, disposable plastic products to developing countries like Guatemala. That trash is ruining rivers and the sea.

Bad ChemistryTop U.S. Toxicologist Was Barred From Saying PFAS Cause Disease in Humans. She’s Saying It Now.

Sharon Lerner – Oct. 24

Linda Birnbaum, former head of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, says she was barred from saying PFAS is a cause of human disease.