BP’s Oil Spill Tax Credit Matches the EPA’s Entire Annual Budget BP’s Oil Spill Tax Credit Matches the EPA’s Entire Annual Budget
Environmental groups and US Uncut rally in Washington to demand that President Obama stand up to Big Polluters like BP and start making them pay their fair share.
Apr 19, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
Mark Hertsgaard: Ignoring Climate Change Is a Crime Mark Hertsgaard: Ignoring Climate Change Is a Crime
As the US government continues to ignore the science on climate change, we are heading down the path towards an uninhabitable world.
Apr 18, 2011 / Press Room
Mark Hertsgaard: Ignoring Climate Change Is a Crime Mark Hertsgaard: Ignoring Climate Change Is a Crime
As the US government continues to ignore the science on climate change, we are heading down the path towards an uninhabitable world.
Apr 18, 2011 / Democracy Now!
Obama to Thousands of Young Climate Activists: Push Me Obama to Thousands of Young Climate Activists: Push Me
PowerShift's green organizers descended on Washington this weekend and gave Obama some tough love.
Apr 18, 2011 / Mark Hertsgaard
Nuclear Dead End: It’s the Economics, Stupid Nuclear Dead End: It’s the Economics, Stupid
Some Greens have embraced nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, but the economics just aren't there.
Apr 18, 2011 / Christian Parenti
How Climate Science Was Saved—For Now How Climate Science Was Saved—For Now
When it looked like Obama might cave to the Republican attack on the EPA, the outcry from environmental organizations was swift. And it worked.
Apr 14, 2011 / Mark Hertsgaard
Why We Underestimate the Earth and Overestimate Ourselves Why We Underestimate the Earth and Overestimate Ourselves
Bill McKibben is right: we no longer live on the “cozy, taken-for-granted” planet formerly known as Earth. We inhabit a new place, already changed dramatically by the interve...
Apr 14, 2011 / Michael T. Klare
Rob Hopkins: How Climate Change Puts Globalization in Reverse Rob Hopkins: How Climate Change Puts Globalization in Reverse
To confront climate change we need an alternative economic model that emphasizes the local. This will come as a shock to many, but haven't the last 50 years of globalization also b...
Apr 12, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Joining 350.org: The Next Phase Joining 350.org: The Next Phase
At this breakthrough moment in the history of the climate movement—when we recognize that the struggles for economic justice, real democracy and a livable climate are all interconn...
Apr 7, 2011 / Naomi Klein
Tar Sands Make Their Mark Tar Sands Make Their Mark
Energy is ugly. Some forms more so than others, as nuclear near-meltdowns in Japan, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and deaths in a West Virginia coal mine explosion have dr...
Apr 7, 2011 / Ellen Cantarow