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.
Environment
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.
Climate Crimes
How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable
Companies are selling more cheap, disposable plastic products to developing countries like Guatemala. That trash is ruining rivers and the sea.
Bad Chemistry
Top U.S. Toxicologist Was Barred From Saying PFAS Cause Disease in Humans. She’s Saying It Now.
Linda Birnbaum, former head of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, says she was barred from saying PFAS is a cause of human disease.
Climate Crimes
Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Global Audit of Plastic Waste
Coca-Cola was responsible for more plastic litter than the next top three polluters combined.
Climate Crimes
Bill McKibben on How Climate Crises and New Technologies Will Change What It Means to Be Human
“Just as we had long taken for granted the stability of the planet, we have likewise taken for granted the stability of the human species.”
Climate Crimes
Leaked Audio Reveals How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
Audio obtained by The Intercept reveals how Coca-Cola’s “green” philanthropy helped squelch an important tool in fighting the plastic crisis.
Climate Crimes
Can Extinction Rebellion Build a U.S. Climate Movement Big Enough to Save the Earth?
To members sincere in their belief that a mass-appeal movement is what’s needed to quell catastrophe, drawing in front-line communities is life or death.
In Iowa, Politicians Protect the Meat Industry by Making Animal Rights Activists Criminals
Our short documentary tells the story of one undercover investigator whose footage of a pig factory farm is at the center of Iowa’s ag-gag backlash.