Climate Change

As the 2016 Campaigns Heat Up, the Moment Still Belongs to the People

As the 2016 Campaigns Heat Up, the Moment Still Belongs to the People As the 2016 Campaigns Heat Up, the Moment Still Belongs to the People

What once seemed unexpected is no longer unthinkable.

Sep 22, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Did the Fish and Wildlife Service Just Doom This Bird to Extinction?

Did the Fish and Wildlife Service Just Doom This Bird to Extinction? Did the Fish and Wildlife Service Just Doom This Bird to Extinction?

Big Oil was desperate to keep the sage grouse off the endangered-species list. Here’s why.

Sep 22, 2015 / Jimmy Tobias

Pope Francis confronts the environmental crisis.

How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology

And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.

Sep 9, 2015 / Feature / Wen Stephenson

Greenhouse Gases

Fossil-Fuel Executives Are Making Obscene Amounts of Money for Wrecking the Planet—and Their Own Companies Fossil-Fuel Executives Are Making Obscene Amounts of Money for Wrecking the Planet—and Their Own Companies

The kings of Big Coal are making off with millions, while their industry collapses.

Sep 2, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Blockadia protest

As President Obama Wraps Up His Alaska Trip, Demand He End His Hypocrisy on Arctic Drilling As President Obama Wraps Up His Alaska Trip, Demand He End His Hypocrisy on Arctic Drilling

Just weeks before a trip intended to call for action on climate change, President Obama gave Royal Dutch Shell Oil permission to start drilling off the coast of Alaska.

Sep 2, 2015 / NationAction

August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast

August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast

“Faith-based disaster relief is no substitute for an effective, organized, rapid government response.”

Aug 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

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

Hawaii Gov David Ige

Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables

An unlikely partnership between Hawaii’s local government and the US military makes the island a leader in energy policy.

Aug 26, 2015 / Juan Cole

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Republicans Aren’t Fooled by Scientists Republicans Aren’t Fooled by Scientists

Everyone knows climate change is just a theory. Also, Al Gore is fat.

Aug 26, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

GOP Candidates

Even the GOP’s ‘Serious’ Candidates Are Way Out of Step With Mainstream Americans Even the GOP’s ‘Serious’ Candidates Are Way Out of Step With Mainstream Americans

Republicans are advocating a future that will drag us back to the failed policies of the past.

Aug 18, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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