A Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines a New Fossil Free Research Campaign A Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines a New Fossil Free Research Campaign
The 2022 Brower Award winner explains why the toxic influence of Big Oil money on climate change research is the next front in the battle against fossil fuel extraction.
Oct 21, 2022 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Ilana Cohen
Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes
As jaws drop around the world over the resignation of the UK’s shortest-lived prime minister, life here is getting considerably worse by the day.
Oct 20, 2022 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata
What Do We Do in a Rapidly Heating World? What Do We Do in a Rapidly Heating World?
The climate and geopolitics are only getting hotter—both urgent existential threats.
Oct 19, 2022 / Alfred McCoy
The Deadly Consequences of Urban Oil Drilling The Deadly Consequences of Urban Oil Drilling
Since she was 9 years old, Nalleli Cobo has been fighting to end environmental racism in Los Angeles, where 3.2 million people live near an oil or gas well.
Oct 19, 2022 / StudentNation / Mara Marques Cavallaro
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
A national fleet of battery-powered cars is unlikely to prove sustainable and could have catastrophic consequences globally.
Oct 18, 2022 / Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox
The Saudi Regime Isn’t Afraid of Joe Biden The Saudi Regime Isn’t Afraid of Joe Biden
Despite widespread disgust at Saudi perfidy, odds are that crackpot realism will once again trump human rights—or even the national interest.
Oct 17, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Nuclear Power Is a Dead End. We Must Abandon It Completely. Nuclear Power Is a Dead End. We Must Abandon It Completely.
Even given Europe's energy crisis, the case against nuclear power has never been so conclusive—and so important.
Oct 13, 2022 / Paul Hockenos
The US Military Is the Enemy of Climate Mitigation The US Military Is the Enemy of Climate Mitigation
Our military alone surpasses the total national emissions of Bulgaria, Croatia, and Slovenia combined.
Sep 28, 2022 / Stan Cox
No, America Doesn’t Actually Need “Sacrifice Zones” No, America Doesn’t Actually Need “Sacrifice Zones”
Their suffering is not for the greater good.
Sep 22, 2022 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers
Notes from Inflation Economics 101.
Sep 15, 2022 / Editorial / Robert Pollin