Energy Policy

Los Angeles traffic

A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement

Amid climate-fueled heat waves and floods, cities around the country are rethinking the streetscape.

Aug 31, 2023 / Lucy Sherriff

Caldor Fire

We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?

Aug 22, 2023 / Michael T. Klare

A storm in the Angeles National Forest looks like clouds on fire.

The Planet Is Only Getting Hotter The Planet Is Only Getting Hotter

We can’t keep being the human beings who live to destroy.

Aug 17, 2023 / Frida Berrigan

Held v. Montana Youth Climate Change Lawsuit

“Held v. Montana” Is a Historic Victory for Climate Action—but Also Human Rights “Held v. Montana” Is a Historic Victory for Climate Action—but Also Human Rights

Invoking the right to a healthy environment will likely become a replicable strategy for climate lawsuits across the country. “I see more and more of these trials happening.”

Aug 16, 2023 / StudentNation / Meher Bhatia

Climate Crisis Forest Fire

Right-Wing Extremism Is Going to Boil Us Alive Right-Wing Extremism Is Going to Boil Us Alive

What planet are Republicans living on?

Aug 10, 2023 / Tom Engelhardt

Willow Oil Project White House Protest

Biden Reneged on His Climate Promises. Can 2024 Be Any Different? Biden Reneged on His Climate Promises. Can 2024 Be Any Different?

The climate movement needs to remind President Biden that he won’t earn our vote by bargaining away our futures.

Jul 25, 2023 / StudentNation / Sena Wazer and Aaditi Lele

The full moon rises over the cooling towers of the Trillo Nuclear Power Plant in Guadalajara, Spain.

The Pacific Northwest Is Experiencing an Atomic Energy Renaissance The Pacific Northwest Is Experiencing an Atomic Energy Renaissance

Can you believe we’re fighting this shit all over again?

Jul 20, 2023 / Joshua Frank

Marshall Islands Mushroom Cloud

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

Drought

Our Warming Planet Is Becoming a Hotbed of Violence Our Warming Planet Is Becoming a Hotbed of Violence

There has always been violent conflict. But we may now be preparing to top off that sorry record with climate-induced conflict.

Jul 7, 2023 / Stan Cox

Visitors walk past the New York Stock Exchange

The Right Hates Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) Investing. The Left Should, Too. The Right Hates Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) Investing. The Left Should, Too.

If the right really understood ESG, they would celebrate it, not denounce it.

Jun 29, 2023 / Brad Swanson

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