Fossil fuel divestment

WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice

WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice

Movement leaders identify their goals as political, but they don’t see the movement as having the political power to achieve those goals.

Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

Obama

Three Weeks After Obama Announced His Clean-Power Plan, He Greenlit New Oil Drilling in the Arctic Three Weeks After Obama Announced His Clean-Power Plan, He Greenlit New Oil Drilling in the Arctic

What’s driving the president’s bafflingly two-faced climate policy?

Aug 26, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard

Abandoned coal mine in Kentucky

Could Obama’s Clean Energy Plan Be Good For Coal Country? Could Obama’s Clean Energy Plan Be Good For Coal Country?

Coalitions between labor and environmentalists are pointing the way to a future beyond coal for Appalachia.

Aug 5, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Solar Panels

Why Are Americans Switching to Renewable Energy? Because It’s Actually Cheaper Why Are Americans Switching to Renewable Energy? Because It’s Actually Cheaper

Fossil fuels have become an economic liability—for both consumers and energy companies.

Aug 5, 2015 / Tara Lohan

Blockadia protest

‘Blockadia’ Activists Up the Ante Against Shell Oil ‘Blockadia’ Activists Up the Ante Against Shell Oil

For more than 36 hours, activists on land, sea, and in the air held up the ship headed to Shell’s Arctic oil-drilling effort.

Jul 31, 2015 / Arun Gupta

Smokestacks

The Government May Already Have the Law It Needs to Beat Big Oil The Government May Already Have the Law It Needs to Beat Big Oil

A document revealing Exxon knew as early as 1981 that carbon emissions drive climate change adds weight to suggestions that fossil-fuel companies be prosecuted under a racketeering...

Jul 15, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square

Did the Catholic Church Endorse Fossil-Fuel Divestment? Did the Catholic Church Endorse Fossil-Fuel Divestment?

The pope’s powerful encyclical on poverty and climate change is likely to transform the investment policies of religious institutions across America.

Jul 7, 2015 / Bob Massie

Protesters oppose Artic oil drilling in Seattle

Tell the 2016 Presidential Candidates: Refuse Donations From Fossil-Fuel Companies Tell the 2016 Presidential Candidates: Refuse Donations From Fossil-Fuel Companies

Join the campaign with The Nation and 350 Action.

Jul 6, 2015 / NationAction

Truck in Chile after flood

Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together

The very idea that we—as atomized individuals—could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate is objectively nuts.

Jun 17, 2015 / Feature / Naomi Klein

3 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Fight to Save the Climate

3 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Fight to Save the Climate 3 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Fight to Save the Climate

Leaders are framing the climate crisis in moral language, renewable energy is soaring—and the coal industry is collapsing.

Apr 6, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard

x