Vermont vs. Vermont Yankee Vermont vs. Vermont Yankee
Should states or the rubber-stamp NRC decide whether nuclear plants continue to operate?
Jan 11, 2012 / Feature / Michael Blanding
Noam Chomsky: How Can the World Confront Peak Oil? Noam Chomsky: How Can the World Confront Peak Oil?
What is the connection between US Pentagon expenditures and the market price of oil?
Jan 9, 2012 / Press Room
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
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