Environmental Issues

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A Landmark Environmental Precedent Was Just Set in Virginia A Landmark Environmental Precedent Was Just Set in Virginia

Thanks to frontline activists and a new law promoting environmental justice, Virginia became one of the first states to recognize the disproportionate impact of pollution on Black,...

Feb 2, 2022 / Crystal “Red Bear” Cavalier-Keck

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A Transformative Green New Deal Requires Inclusive Manufacturing A Transformative Green New Deal Requires Inclusive Manufacturing

Without a new approach to manufacturing, we may protect the environment better but continue to reinforce racial and economic inequality.

Jan 28, 2022 / Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Nina Gregg

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Should Environmental Activists Sabotage Fossil Fuel Infrastructure? Should Environmental Activists Sabotage Fossil Fuel Infrastructure?

Andreas Malm argues that property destruction can be inspiring, while Daniel Sherrell writes that it would reduce the climate movement’s ability to effect change.

Jan 27, 2022 / The Debate / Andreas Malm and Daniel Sherrell

The Supreme Court vs. the Earth

The Supreme Court vs. the Earth The Supreme Court vs. the Earth

The conservatives on the Supreme Court are increasingly inserting themselves into the climate fight—and you guess which side they’re on.

Jan 26, 2022 / Elie Mystal

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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

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