Environment

In the absence of federal regulations, New Jersey is the first state to set safety levels for PFAS contamination and make companies pay for clean up.

For many young activists, the climate strike is a sanity-saving expression of the grief and anxiety they shoulder about a quickly worsening crisis.

In “Our History Is the Future,” Nick Estes examines the tradition of Indigenous resistance that gave rise to today’s fights against fossil fuel development.

That activists’ conversations with Democrats — and Republicans — have borne actual fruit should be instructive as they try to gin up more support for the Green New Deal.

Laborers’ opposition to the Green New Deal is rooted in concerns about jobs and wages, the best way to reduce carbon emissions, and partisan interests.

A new report from the Public Accountability Initiative tracks the bipartisan consensus in opposition to the Green New Deal.

How government responds to cancer-causing air pollution depends a lot on where you live and the color of your skin.

"The Interior Department’s culture of corruption under President Trump didn’t start or end with Ryan Zinke."

Invasions of Indigenous territories by land grabbers have spiked since Bolsonaro took office and immediately rolled back federal protections.

The Green New Deal can succeed only if we recognize that our crisis can only be overcome with a holistic vision for social and economic transformation.