High School Students Shed Light on New York City’s Failure to Enforce Environmental Law High School Students Shed Light on New York City’s Failure to Enforce Environmental Law
A group of high schoolers investigate buses and cars idling longer than legally permitted.
Aug 11, 2010 / StudentNation / Carrie Battan
We Have Yet to See the Biggest Costs of the BP Spill We Have Yet to See the Biggest Costs of the BP Spill
The full extent of the damage from the BP disaster will not be known for years, but if we are to learn anything now, we must confront the question: What are the true costs of ...
Aug 5, 2010 / Raj Patel
We’re Hot As Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More We’re Hot As Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
Three steps to establish a politics of global warming.
Aug 4, 2010 / Bill McKibben
Energy Policy Fail Energy Policy Fail
A watered-down version of an energy bill is being published today—but Obama can effect clean changes simply by changing the types of products that the federal government bu...
Jul 27, 2010 / Press Room
Energy Policy Fail Energy Policy Fail
A watered-down version of an energy bill is being published today—but Obama can effect clean changes simply by changing the types of products that the federal government buys...
Jul 27, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Big Oil Makes War on the Earth Big Oil Makes War on the Earth
The Gulf Coast joins an oil-soiled planet.
Jul 19, 2010 / Ellen Cantarow
Hot Plate: An Interview With Anna Lappé Hot Plate: An Interview With Anna Lappé
Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet, dishes on connections between what we eat and our warming planet.
Jun 8, 2010 / Tom Philpott
One Case Against BP, Wall Street, and War One Case Against BP, Wall Street, and War
The need for stronger links between the environmental, peace and Wall Street reform movements grow by the day in the face of the oil spill caused by BP.
May 5, 2010 / Tom Hayden
Oil Rig Sinks, as Does Senate Climate Bill Oil Rig Sinks, as Does Senate Climate Bill
Two environmental disasters flared up this week: oil from a sunken rig is reaching land, and Senator Lindsey Graham has backed off from his bipartisan climate bill.
Apr 30, 2010 / Sarah Laskow
350 Degrees of Inseparability 350 Degrees of Inseparability
The good news about the very bad news (about climate change).
Apr 22, 2010 / Rebecca Solnit