Climate Change

Greenhouse Gases

Fossil-Fuel Executives Are Making Obscene Amounts of Money for Wrecking the Planet—and Their Own Companies Fossil-Fuel Executives Are Making Obscene Amounts of Money for Wrecking the Planet—and Their Own Companies

The kings of Big Coal are making off with millions, while their industry collapses.

Sep 2, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Blockadia protest

As President Obama Wraps Up His Alaska Trip, Demand He End His Hypocrisy on Arctic Drilling As President Obama Wraps Up His Alaska Trip, Demand He End His Hypocrisy on Arctic Drilling

Just weeks before a trip intended to call for action on climate change, President Obama gave Royal Dutch Shell Oil permission to start drilling off the coast of Alaska.

Sep 2, 2015 / no-paywall / NationAction

August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast

August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast

“Faith-based disaster relief is no substitute for an effective, organized, rapid government response.”

Aug 29, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

Obama

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

Hawaii Gov David Ige

Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables

An unlikely partnership between Hawaii’s local government and the US military makes the island a leader in energy policy.

Aug 26, 2015 / Juan Cole

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Republicans Aren’t Fooled by Scientists Republicans Aren’t Fooled by Scientists

Everyone knows climate change is just a theory. Also, Al Gore is fat.

Aug 26, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

GOP Candidates

Even the GOP’s ‘Serious’ Candidates Are Way Out of Step With Mainstream Americans Even the GOP’s ‘Serious’ Candidates Are Way Out of Step With Mainstream Americans

Republicans are advocating a future that will drag us back to the failed policies of the past.

Aug 18, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

California Drought

If You Want to Know the Future of the Climate, Look at California If You Want to Know the Future of the Climate, Look at California

California’s struggle with climate change will soon reach the rest of the country.

Aug 17, 2015 / William deBuys

Abandoned coal mine in Kentucky

Could Obama’s Clean Energy Plan Be Good For Coal Country? Could Obama’s Clean Energy Plan Be Good For Coal Country?

Coalitions between labor and environmentalists are pointing the way to a future beyond coal for Appalachia.

Aug 5, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Solar Panels

Why Are Americans Switching to Renewable Energy? Because It’s Actually Cheaper Why Are Americans Switching to Renewable Energy? Because It’s Actually Cheaper

Fossil fuels have become an economic liability—for both consumers and energy companies.

Aug 5, 2015 / Tara Lohan

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