Environmental Issues

Power plant smoke

Progressive Democrats Set Out to Defund the Fossil Fuel Industry Progressive Democrats Set Out to Defund the Fossil Fuel Industry

A new bill seeks to protect both the climate and the economy.

Sep 15, 2021 / Aída Chávez

Tents of asylum-seekers at the Southern border of the US

Global Vaccine Inequity Could Make Migration Harder Than Ever Global Vaccine Inequity Could Make Migration Harder Than Ever

Migrants are facing even more restrictions in the Covid era—and thanks to lack of vaccine access in lower-income countries, they will be less likely to meet them.

Sep 15, 2021 / Abdullah Shihipar

Sen. Joe Manchin

For Joe Manchin, It’s Always About Joe Manchin For Joe Manchin, It’s Always About Joe Manchin

Keep fronting for your Big Pharma, fossil fuel donors, and you’ll go down in history as the senator who destroyed our shaky democracy.

Sep 14, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Harvard Divest protest

How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won

Climate activists at other institutions can learn from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard after their victory at the world’s richest university.

Sep 14, 2021 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

U.S. Senate Continues Debate On Infrastructure Bill

Cutting the $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan Would Be Political Malpractice Cutting the $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan Would Be Political Malpractice

Joe Manchin’s lobbyist-influenced advice threatens to ruin Democratic chances in 2022.

Sep 13, 2021 / John Nichols

I Lost My Home to the Climate Crisis. You Could Too.

I Lost My Home to the Climate Crisis. You Could Too. I Lost My Home to the Climate Crisis. You Could Too.

Greenville offers a glimpse of our future under climate change.

Sep 13, 2021 / Jane Braxton Little

When It Rains in Detroit

When It Rains in Detroit When It Rains in Detroit

Even an ordinary rainfall in the Motor City can prompt devastating floods, turning the fortunes of many upside down.

Sep 10, 2021 / Bilal Baydoun

Big Oil’s Delay Tactics Are the New Climate Science Denialism

Big Oil’s Delay Tactics Are the New Climate Science Denialism Big Oil’s Delay Tactics Are the New Climate Science Denialism

Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry engages in “discourses of delay” to divert attention away from the crisis.

Sep 9, 2021 / Amy Westervelt

To Survive Climate Change, We Need to Rebuild the World as We Know It

To Survive Climate Change, We Need to Rebuild the World as We Know It To Survive Climate Change, We Need to Rebuild the World as We Know It

Extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida prove that we need to rethink everything we think we know about the built and natural worlds.

Sep 6, 2021 / Jake Bittle

The New New Deal?

The New New Deal? The New New Deal?

Bernie Sanders says the Democratic caucus’s budget will be “the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor” since...

Sep 6, 2021 / John Nichols

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