Trump Pushes a New Pipeline Permit as Floods Devastate Native American Tribes
To pipeline opponents in Pine Ridge, the floods prove their point: Without a halt to fossil fuel extraction, vulnerable communities will pay the price.
Environment
How the Media Launders Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Through Branded Content
The oil and gas industry is using branded content, and the news media’s hunger for revenue, to peddle misleading claims about natural gas.
The War on Immigrants
How Trump's Border Wall Perpetuates the Legacy of Colonialism on the Rio Grande
The government has submitted condemnation notices for hundreds of mostly Hispanic landowners to build the Rio Grande Valley portion of its wall.
Bad Chemistry
New Jersey Is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination — Shining a New Light on a Little-Known Offender
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.
Young People Feel Betrayed by Adults Over the Climate Crisis. Today, They're Going on Strike.
For many young activists, the climate strike is a sanity-saving expression of the grief and anxiety they shoulder about a quickly worsening crisis.
A Lakota Historian on What Climate Organizers Can Learn From Two Centuries of Indigenous Resistance
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.
The Viral Confrontation With Dianne Feinstein Had a Political Impact Most Pundits Missed
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.
Labor Unions Are Skeptical of the Green New Deal, and They Want Activists to Hear Them Out
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.
Who's Afraid of the Green New Deal?
A new report from the Public Accountability Initiative tracks the bipartisan consensus in opposition to the Green New Deal.
The EPA’s Bungled Response to an Air Pollution Crisis Exposes a Toxic Racial Divide
How government responds to cancer-causing air pollution depends a lot on where you live and the color of your skin.