Environmental Issues

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The Tularosa Downwinders Have Waited 75 Years for Justice The Tularosa Downwinders Have Waited 75 Years for Justice

Even though the first atomic bomb exploded in their state, New Mexicans were never compensated for the health consequences of nuclear contamination. These campaigners have vowed to...

Jan 25, 2022 / Sofia Martinez

Bank of America Divestment

Why I Divested My Bank Account and You Should Too Why I Divested My Bank Account and You Should Too

I couldn’t accept doing business with one of the world’s greatest financiers of fossil fuels.

Jan 19, 2022 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

How Exxon Is Leveraging Texas Courts to Silence Its Climate Critics

How Exxon Is Leveraging Texas Courts to Silence Its Climate Critics How Exxon Is Leveraging Texas Courts to Silence Its Climate Critics

America’s largest oil firm claims its history of publicly denying the climate crisis is protected by the First Amendment.

Jan 18, 2022 / Chris McGreal

Dakota Access Pipeline Protest

It’s Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change It’s Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change

Students are boycotting Gibson Dunn for representing the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, undermining the Indian Child Welfare Act, and more.

Jan 12, 2022 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona and David Cremins

The first atomic bomb test was conducted at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945.

This Is the Unbuilding of America This Is the Unbuilding of America

We’ve long inhabited a perilous world—one that has only grown more so as the decades have passed.

Jan 11, 2022 / Tom Engelhardt

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Letters From the January 17/24, 2022, Issue Letters From the January 17/24, 2022, Issue

Josephine Baker's French exile… Climate wars… A report worth reading… Build Back Better, please…

Jan 11, 2022 / Our Readers

Oil Companies Have Known for Decades

Oil Companies Have Known for Decades Oil Companies Have Known for Decades

They’ve promoted climate change doubt and we all pay.

Jan 7, 2022 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Capitol Insurrection

Defusing the Global Climate Emergency Depends on Defusing the Democracy Emergency Defusing the Global Climate Emergency Depends on Defusing the Democracy Emergency

On the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, we’re reminded that the future hinges on rejecting the two Big Lies.

Jan 6, 2022 / Mark Hertsgaard

Rising Tide… of Action?

Rising Tide… of Action? Rising Tide… of Action?

2022: A critical year for climate response.

Dec 31, 2021 / OppArt / Tamara Wyndham

Happy New Year, It’s Sure Been Weird

Happy New Year, It’s Sure Been Weird Happy New Year, It’s Sure Been Weird

I wouldn’t even try to sum up this bizarre year of ours.

Dec 31, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt

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