Energy

Rex Tillerson hearing

Get Ready for Trump’s Climate-Denial Offensive Get Ready for Trump’s Climate-Denial Offensive

If Trump continues his assault on common sense about climate change, America is going to lose—and lose big.

Mar 7, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

SOS on truck for climate change

Donald Trump’s War on Science Donald Trump’s War on Science

The fear in environmental-protection agencies is palpable—but so is the pushback.

Mar 2, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Citizens of Stoke-on-Trent campaigning for UKIP

The Most Important Post-Brexit Election Is Taking Place in This Small City The Most Important Post-Brexit Election Is Taking Place in This Small City

Tomorrow, voters may elect a second UKIP member to Parliament.

Feb 22, 2017 / Maria Margaronis

Greenhouse Gases

Progressives Need to Get Over Themselves and Support This GOP-Backed Carbon-Tax Plan Progressives Need to Get Over Themselves and Support This GOP-Backed Carbon-Tax Plan

Purist objections scuttled Washington State’s market-friendly carbon tax plan in November. Let’s not let that happen at the national level.

Feb 14, 2017 / Charles Komanoff

Shell No Protest

Climate Disobedience in the Time of Trump Climate Disobedience in the Time of Trump

Ken Ward and Emily Johnston are willing to spend decades in prison for shutting down tar-sands oil pipelines. They want you to understand why.

Feb 13, 2017 / Wen Stephenson

Republicans laugh

This Is How the Republican Party Plans to Destroy the Federal Government This Is How the Republican Party Plans to Destroy the Federal Government

The Overthrow Project existed before Trump, but it may not survive his presidency.

Feb 13, 2017 / Herbert J. Gans

Big Oil’s Grip on California

Big Oil’s Grip on California Big Oil’s Grip on California

In America’s greenest state, the industry has spent $122 million in the past six years to shape regulation and legislation. It wins more than you think.

Feb 13, 2017 / Feature / Michael J. Mishak, Center for Public Integrity

E-mails Suggest a Very Cozy Relationship Between California’s Oil Industry and the State’s Regulators

E-mails Suggest a Very Cozy Relationship Between California’s Oil Industry and the State’s Regulators E-mails Suggest a Very Cozy Relationship Between California’s Oil Industry and the State’s Regulators

“A little too cordial.”

Feb 13, 2017 / Michael J. Mishak, Center for Public Integrity

San Francisco Oil Refinery

This Bay Area Proposal Would Strike a Huge Blow to the Dirtiest Forms of Oil Production This Bay Area Proposal Would Strike a Huge Blow to the Dirtiest Forms of Oil Production

A proposed emissions cap would prevent the area’s refineries from converting dirtier-burning oils into fuel. Will it pass?

Jan 31, 2017 / Will Parrish

Shut Down Trump’s ‘Swamp Cabinet’ and Other Ways to Keep Fighting Trump’s Cabinet Nominees

Shut Down Trump’s ‘Swamp Cabinet’ and Other Ways to Keep Fighting Trump’s Cabinet Nominees Shut Down Trump’s ‘Swamp Cabinet’ and Other Ways to Keep Fighting Trump’s Cabinet Nominees

Make phone calls, share information, and join a “Day of Action” this Tuesday.

Jan 20, 2017 / NationAction

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