Environmental Issues

Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court

Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court

Big Carbon is where Big Tobacco was, before it started losing.

Apr 21, 2014 / Feature / Dan Zegart

Senator Manchin Defends Law Firm Accused of Concealing Black Lung Medical Evidence

Senator Manchin Defends Law Firm Accused of Concealing Black Lung Medical Evidence Senator Manchin Defends Law Firm Accused of Concealing Black Lung Medical Evidence

A Pulitzer-prize winning investigation found that law firm Jackson Kelly, now defended by Senator Joe Manchin, concealed evidence and shaped doctor’s testimony.

Apr 16, 2014 / Lee Fang

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The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet

In the face of a changing climate and a constrained domestic budget, the lunacy of fossil fuel subsidies is hard to overstate.

Apr 15, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism

Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism

Years of Living Dangerously will make you boiling mad about the climate calamity that awaits us in the twenty-first century.  

Apr 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Who’s Really to Blame for the Ravages of Climate Change?

Who’s Really to Blame for the Ravages of Climate Change? Who’s Really to Blame for the Ravages of Climate Change?

In Showtime’s powerful new documentary, Years of Living Dangerously, will the West’s rapacious consumption habits be let off the hook?

Apr 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Brentin Mock

Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma?

Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma? Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma?

Two prominent health groups are demanding that the State Department find out.

Apr 11, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

The World Bank’s Waste of Energy

The World Bank’s Waste of Energy The World Bank’s Waste of Energy

Expanding energy access makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is using a failed scheme—like carbon trading—to pay for it.

Apr 11, 2014 / Janet Redman and Foreign Policy In Focus

Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust

Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust

A large group of Harvard faculty release an open letter to President Drew Gilpin Faust calling forcefully for fossil-fuel divestment.

Apr 10, 2014 / Wen Stephenson

This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?

This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against? This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?

A small group of skeptics says rising global temperatures will have a net positive effect on the world. 

Apr 10, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It

America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It

Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the United States is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds.

Apr 8, 2014 / Emanuel Pastreich, John Feffer, and Foreign Policy In Focus

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