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.
Environment
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.
EPA's New Water Rule Will Gut the Clean Water Act
An estimated 60 to 90 percent of U.S. waterways could lose federal water protections that currently shield them from pollution and development.
Unhinged GDP Growth Could Actually Destroy the Economy, Economists Find
In order to grapple with the harsh reality, governments need new ways of measuring welfare and well-being that don’t rely on GDP growth.