How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Attempting to Buy the Global Youth Climate Movement
Corporations and politicians are increasingly using young people to portray themselves as serious about climate action.
Environment
Environmental Activists Target Exxon’s Lead Attorney in Climate Liability Case, a Prominent Democratic Donor
Ted Wells Jr., who defended Exxon against a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general, has given half a million dollars to Democrats in recent decades.
Pipeline Giant Energy Transfer and Its Private Security Contractors Face Bribery Charges in Pennsylvania
In a “buy-a-badge scheme,” Energy Transfer and the security firm TigerSwan allegedly paid elected constables to guard the Mariner East 2 pipeline.
Climate Crimes
Under Left- and Right-Wing Leaders, the Amazon Has Burned. Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining?
The social gains of the pink tide were real, and striking. But they were ephemeral, and the cost to the environment was high.
Did an American Billionaire Philanthropist Play a Role in the Imprisonment of Iranian Environmentalists?
Thomas Kaplan funds both a big-cat charity and an anti-Iran advocacy group. These worlds collided when eight Iranian environmentalists were arrested.
Iraqi Children Born Near U.S. Military Base Show Elevated Rates of “Serious Congenital Deformities,” Study Finds
“The war has spread so much radiation here that, unless it is cleaned up, generations of Iraqis will continue to be affected.”
Climate Crimes
Emboldened by Bolsonaro, Land-Hungry Ranchers Are Destroying a Pioneering Project to Help the Poor and Save the Amazon
American Catholic nun Dorothy Stang died defending a sustainable development model for the Amazon. Can her legacy survive in Bolsonaro’s Brazil?
Climate Crimes
Everything 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.
Voices
Forged in Fire: California’s Lessons for a Green New Deal
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
The climate liability lawsuit filed in Massachusetts, broader than similar litigation in New York, describes Exxon Mobil’s evolving deception playbook.