Environmental Justice

Hundreds of young climate activists rally in Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House to demand that President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021, in Washington, DC.

The Green New Deal—From Below The Green New Deal—From Below

It’s a base for countering Trump’s destructive policies.

Nov 21, 2024 / Jeremy Brecher

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is jill-stein-portrait-getty.jpg Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein waits to speak at a news conference on Fifth Avenue across the street from Trump Tower on December 5, 2016, in New York City.

I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green. I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green.

Award-winning filmmaker and director of Gasland Josh Fox on why he will never vote for Jill Stein.

Nov 1, 2024 / Josh Fox

The Industry Behind Your Filet-O-Fish Is Destroying Alaska’s Oceans and Rivers

The Industry Behind Your Filet-O-Fish Is Destroying Alaska’s Oceans and Rivers The Industry Behind Your Filet-O-Fish Is Destroying Alaska’s Oceans and Rivers

While the deep-pocketed trawling industry rakes in millions, indigenous Alaskans, small-scale fisheries, and the state’s ecosystem are being left out to dry.

Oct 2, 2024 / Lois Parshley

Alice Hu of the Summer of Heat campaign speaks to the camera as she is arrested at Citigroup's Manhattan headquarters on July 22, 2024, in a Stop the Money Pipeline video on Instagram.

Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: “Talk Is Cheap” Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: “Talk Is Cheap”

An interview with Alice Hu, one of the lead organizers of the “Summer of Heat” campaign targeting Wall Street fossil fuel financiers.

Aug 8, 2024 / Wen Stephenson

I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors

I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors

At the Cleantech North America conference, the fates of climate-tech start-ups are tangled into the balance sheets of companies who caused the crisis in the first place.

Feb 15, 2024 / Molly Taft

Electric vehicles on the production line at General Motors' Factory ZERO all-electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Mich.

Automakers Don’t Need to Choose Between Labor and Climate Automakers Don’t Need to Choose Between Labor and Climate

Corporations say they can’t meet the UAW’s demands while also transitioning to electric vehicles. The truth is they just need to fork over the money.

Sep 27, 2023 / Lucy Dean Stockton

get big oil out of cop28! poster/ protester extinction rebellion

Exclude Fossil Fuel Firms From COP 28 if They Only Want to Obstruct Exclude Fossil Fuel Firms From COP 28 if They Only Want to Obstruct

“My patience ran out,” said Christiana Figueres, who for years had advocated for oil companies to be involved in policymaking talks.

Sep 22, 2023 / Dharna Noor

houses, neighborhood destroyed by lahaina hawaii fires

A Dispatch From the Heart of Lahaina: Relief Is Not Enough A Dispatch From the Heart of Lahaina: Relief Is Not Enough

Justice demands a return of control over public resources like land and water to the people of Hawai'i.

Aug 21, 2023 / Kaniela Ing

Where there was once water in abundance, there is now just the dry, cracked, exposed lake bed.

The Great Salt Lake Is Becoming Too Salty to Support Life The Great Salt Lake Is Becoming Too Salty to Support Life

From brine flies to brine shrimp to eared grebes to pronghorn and buffalo, the lake supports an exquisite ecosystem whose collapse is literally making people sick.

Aug 21, 2023 / Feature / Katharine S. Walter

Supporters gather at a theater next to the Helena, Mont., courthouse on June 12, 2023, to watch the court proceedings for the nation's first youth climate change trial at Montana's First Judicial District Court. Sixteen plaintiffs, ranging in age from 6 to 22, are suing the state for promoting fossil fuel energy policies that they say violate their constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment.”

16 Young People Sued Montana Over the Climate. The Planet Won. 16 Young People Sued Montana Over the Climate. The Planet Won.

Environment / August 15, 2023 16 Young People Sued Montana Over the Climate. The Planet Won. A state district court ruled yesterday that Montana’s failure to document greenhous…

Aug 15, 2023 / Gabriel Furshong

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