Voices
The Search for Clean Air Amid Australia’s Smoky Fires
The air purifier reminded me of R2D2. If it lit up blue, we were winning. Seeing blue became my preoccupation.
Environment
Trump's Gutting of Toxics Regulations Will Mean Higher Profits for Polluters and Higher Cancer Rates for the American People
The Trump EPA is executing an old tobacco industry scheme to dismantle the federal government’s ability to protect the public from cancer.
Factory Farm Industry Quietly Lobbies California Officials to Criminalize Animal Rescue Activism
Records show that the California Farm Bureau has been working behind closed doors to limit legal exemptions for Direct Action Everywhere’s open rescues.
Climate Crimes
Imperial Oil, Canada's Exxon Subsidiary, Ignored Its Own Climate Change Research for Decades, Archive Shows
Imperial publicly denied the dangers of carbon dioxide emissions even as its research arm concluded the pollutants contributed to climate change.
Voices
The Banality of Apocalypse: Escaping, With “Paw Patrol” and Daniel Tiger, From the Australian Fires
“At the gas station, we found a long line of vehicles stretching most of the length of the very small town. The sight of this, plus thickening orange haze, reminded me of a disaster movie.”
Year in Review 2019
Climate Crimes on the Border, in the Amazon, and in Boardrooms: The Intercept’s 2019 Environment Coverage
A look back at The Intercept’s must-read environment stories from 2019.
Inside the Plot to Murder Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres
Text and WhatsApp messages show that the conspiracy against Berta Cáceres reached the highest ranks of the company whose dam she had been protesting.
Bad Chemistry
European Countries Announce Plan to Phase Out Toxic PFAS Chemicals by 2030
A strategy report submitted to the European Commission maps out a comprehensive attack on PFAS chemicals, which have contaminated water around the world.
Climate Crimes
Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks
“They've effectively been lighting the house on fire as they plan to walk out the door,” said an advocate about Trump’s pledge to leave the Paris Agreement.
New Chemical Complex Would Displace Suspected Slave Burial Ground in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”
The planned Formosa chemical complex, which is one mile from a school, would release more than 800 tons of hazardous air pollutants per year.