South Carolina Spent $9 Billion to Dig a Hole in the Ground and Then Fill It Back In
Cost is often raised as a critical objection to combating climate change. But South Carolina shows what's possible.
Environment
How the Green New Deal Became the Green New Deal
The signature effort that has become attached to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal, was originally planned to go by a different name, she said.
Bad Chemistry
Chemours Is Using the U.S. as an Unregulated Dump for Europe’s Toxic GenX Waste
GenX was introduced in 2009 by DuPont to replace PFOA, but it presents many of the same health and environmental problems and causes cancer in lab animals.
Policing the Pipeline
How Police, Private Security, and Energy Companies Are Preparing for a New Pipeline Standoff
Law enforcement has been monitoring opposition to Enbridge Line 3 and seeking guidance from officials who led the militarized response at Standing Rock.
Climate Change, Not Border Security, Is the Real National Emergency
Efforts to restrict access to the world's temperate regions, like Trump's immigration policy, will be a defining political issue of the next century.
Bad Chemistry
The U.S. Military Plans to Keep Incinerating Toxic Firefighting Foam, Despite Health Risks
The U.S. military plans to incinerate unused firefighting foam containing hazardous chemicals, even with the health and environmental risks this poses.
Henry Cuellar's Policy Preferences Could Destroy the World. But Then Again, He's a Really Nice Guy.
Politics are about hard choices. The planet or Henry Cuellar?
The War on Immigrants
As Trial Starts for Border Humanitarian Volunteers, New Documents Reveal Federal Bureaucrats’ Obsession With Stopping Activists
The activists are on trial for leaving lifesaving supplies along a deadly migrant route — or what the government considers “littering.”
Climate Crisis Is “Existential Threat,” House Democrats Say — but Protecting Turf Comes First
Rep. Nancy Pelosi in her statement deemed the climate crisis an “existential threat,” but her new committee will not have the power to issue subpoenas.
Oil and Water
How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them
A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond.