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
The social gains of the pink tide were real, and striking. But they were ephemeral, and the cost to the environment was high.
Thomas Kaplan funds both a big-cat charity and an anti-Iran advocacy group. These worlds collided when eight Iranian environmentalists were arrested.
“The war has spread so much radiation here that, unless it is cleaned up, generations of Iraqis will continue to be affected.”
Climate Crimes
American Catholic nun Dorothy Stang died defending a sustainable development model for the Amazon. Can her legacy survive in Bolsonaro’s Brazil?
Climate Crimes
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
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.
The climate liability lawsuit filed in Massachusetts, broader than similar litigation in New York, describes Exxon Mobil’s evolving deception playbook.
Climate Crimes
Companies are selling more cheap, disposable plastic products to developing countries like Guatemala. That trash is ruining rivers and the sea.
Bad Chemistry
Linda Birnbaum, former head of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, says she was barred from saying PFAS is a cause of human disease.
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