How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists
A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.
May 15, 2024 / Molly Taft
Biden’s Domestic Reforms Don’t Add Up to the Great Society Biden’s Domestic Reforms Don’t Add Up to the Great Society
But they do signal that government can make life tangibly better.
May 13, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Biden Should Abolish Secretive Corporate Tribunals that Bypass the Law Biden Should Abolish Secretive Corporate Tribunals that Bypass the Law
A legal regime known as investor-state dispute settlements erode environmental regulation and increase fossil fuel industry profits.
Dec 12, 2023 / Molly Taft
The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses
In the Global North, measures to stop climate change cannot double as ways to further economic growth
Dec 4, 2023 / Kohei Saito
Humanity Has Created Too Many Ways of Destroying Itself Humanity Has Created Too Many Ways of Destroying Itself
The potential for nuclear disaster and the slow destruction of climate change are both man-made.
Jul 18, 2023 / Tom Engelhardt
The Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want This Climate Charter to Succeed The Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want This Climate Charter to Succeed
El Paso is holding a special election on Saturday for one of the most important pieces of climate policy you’ve likely never heard of.
May 5, 2023 / Matthew Miles Goodrich
He Made Louisiana History. Now He Wants to Change the State’s Climate Future. He Made Louisiana History. Now He Wants to Change the State’s Climate Future.
Davante Lewis is the first Black, openly LGBTQ person ever elected to office in Louisiana. Now he wants to turn a fossil fuel hub into a green energy giant.
Apr 14, 2023 / Grey Moran
The Media’s Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy The Media’s Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy
Beneath the upbeat messaging, the latest UN climate report makes it clear that while the means to save the planet may still be available, the political will is nowhere in sight.
Apr 3, 2023 / Editorial / Wen Stephenson
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Donating Millions to Skew University Research Fossil Fuel Companies Are Donating Millions to Skew University Research
A new report from Data for Progress and Fossil Free Research examines the influence Big Oil and other polluters have in higher education.
Mar 30, 2023 / StudentNation / Abby Saks and Phoebe Barr
When It Comes to Climate Solutions, Technical Fixes Aren’t Enough When It Comes to Climate Solutions, Technical Fixes Aren’t Enough
Experts have identified “positive” tipping points as the next big climate solution. But technical fixes don’t matter without political will.
Mar 22, 2023 / Audrey Carleton