Environmental Issues

Compassion Is Our New Currency Compassion Is Our New Currency

Notes on 2011’s preoccupied hearts and minds.

Dec 22, 2011 / Rebecca Solnit

The Four Occupations of Planet Earth The Four Occupations of Planet Earth

How the occupied became the occupiers.

Dec 19, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt

Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show

Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show

Thanks to a new and frightening breed of climate denier, our chances of avoiding catastrophe just got worse.

Dec 14, 2011 / Mark Hertsgaard

Republicans Intensify Attacks on the Nuclear Safety Chief Republicans Intensify Attacks on the Nuclear Safety Chief

A contentious House hearing Wednesday featured direct calls for the resignation of NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko. 

Dec 14, 2011 / George Zornick

Defeat of the XL Pipeline Is a Signal Achievement Defeat of the XL Pipeline Is a Signal Achievement

Anyone despairing over the immense power of the corporate sector to dominate world affairs should watch this video documenting the power that grassroots protest can still muster ...

Dec 14, 2011 / Peter Rothberg

Meltdown at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Meltdown at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Bureaucratic battles reveal the nuclear industry has many friends at the agency which regulates it.  

Dec 12, 2011 / George Zornick

29 Miners and Massey’s Coal Crimes 29 Miners and Massey’s Coal Crimes

$209 million isn't enough. Revoke Massey's corporate charter.

Dec 8, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Naomi Klein in the ‘New York Times’: Inconvenient Climate Conclusions Naomi Klein in the ‘New York Times’: Inconvenient Climate Conclusions

Seriously confronting the warming of our planet would essentially spell the end for free market capitalism.

Dec 8, 2011 / Press Room

Kumi Naidoo: Environmental Activists Must ‘Name and Shame’ Uncooperative Corporations Kumi Naidoo: Environmental Activists Must ‘Name and Shame’ Uncooperative Corporations

Leading environmentalist Kumi Naidoo urges activists to “name and shame” uncooperative corporations and governments into entering a dialogue on climate change.

Dec 5, 2011 / Press Room

The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization

If you live just about anywhere in the American West, you or your children and grandchildren could soon enough be facing the Age of Thirst.

Dec 5, 2011 / William deBuys

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