Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don’t Get It Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don’t Get It
Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs.
Oct 14, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
Three Weeks After Obama Announced His Clean-Power Plan, He Greenlit New Oil Drilling in the Arctic Three Weeks After Obama Announced His Clean-Power Plan, He Greenlit New Oil Drilling in the Arctic
What’s driving the president’s bafflingly two-faced climate policy?
Aug 26, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
World Governments Subsidize the Burning of Fossil Fuels to the Tune of $10 Million a Minute World Governments Subsidize the Burning of Fossil Fuels to the Tune of $10 Million a Minute
According to a new IMF study, we’re subsidizing the digging of our own graves.
May 21, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
Coal, Like Tobacco, Has to Go—But It Must Be Phased Out Carefully Coal, Like Tobacco, Has to Go—But It Must Be Phased Out Carefully
The leaders of Britain’s three main parties have committed to it. We can do the same.
May 6, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
3 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Fight to Save the Climate 3 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Fight to Save the Climate
Leaders are framing the climate crisis in moral language, renewable energy is soaring—and the coal industry is collapsing.
Apr 6, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
How Saving the Environment Could Fix the Economy How Saving the Environment Could Fix the Economy
Why not revive New Deal policies but apply them in a green and global fashion?
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
Black Comedy in the Maldives Black Comedy in the Maldives
Why was former president and climate-justice hero Mohamed Nasheed sentenced to prison on terrorism charges?
Mar 16, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
3 Minutes Until We All Die 3 Minutes Until We All Die
The scientists at the Doomsday Clock say that failed political leadership on climate change and nuclear weapons endangers “every person on earth.”
Jan 23, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
How 350.org Is (Still) Changing the Climate Justice Movement How 350.org Is (Still) Changing the Climate Justice Movement
Bill McKibben, 350.org’s longtime leader, has taken a step back—but that doesn’t mean the group is slowing down.
Dec 9, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
Will Republican Know-Nothings Torpedo Climate Progress? Will Republican Know-Nothings Torpedo Climate Progress?
Obama’s postponement of Keystone XL, EPA emissions regulations and now the China deal are in jeopardy.
Nov 12, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard