Environment

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 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 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 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

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