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.
Environment
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.
Climate Change Refugees Share Stories of Escaping Wildfires, Floods, and Droughts
From California to North Carolina to the U.S.-Mexico border, climate change refugees struggle to survive in an attention economy that has forgotten them.
Year in Review 2018
From Tactical Pants to the Green New Deal: The Intercept’s 2018 Environment Coverage
Catastrophic hurricanes, heartless vivisectionists, criminal polluters, and climate supervillains like Scott Pruitt were all on extravagant display in 2018.
EPA’s Own Data Refutes Justification for Clean Water Act Rollback
The EPA’s statements about the meaning of its rollback of the Clean Water Act don’t withstand scrutiny.
The Extinction Rebellion's Direct-Action Climate Activism Comes to New York
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion met in Manhattan to discuss how they might replicate their success in the U.K.
From Obama to Trump, Climate Negotiations Are Being Run by the Same Crew of American Technocrats
The new boss is same as the old boss.
DuPont Has Spread Its Pollution Around the World. Now It Wants to Filter Your Contaminated Drinking Water.
DuPont opened a factory in Saudi Arabia last week that will produce reverse osmosis water filters to remove contaminants, including those caused by DuPont.
Trump's Attack on the Clean Water Act Will Fuel Destructive Pipeline Boom
Pipeline construction projects currently required to undergo months, or even years, of scrutiny from water experts will be allowed to speed forward.
Shell Oil Executive Boasts That His Company Influenced the Paris Agreement
“We can take some credit for the fact that Article 6 [of the Paris agreement] is even there at all,” he said.