Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy
What should an economy that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels actually look like?
Dec 3, 2015 / Video / Naomi Klein
The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming
Global temperatures would still rise to 2.7 to 3.5 C above the pre-industrial level.
Nov 30, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
Making the Paris Climate Talks Count Making the Paris Climate Talks Count
At the bottom of all the jargon that will be thrown about this week’s climate conference are human lives.
Nov 29, 2015 / Video / Naomi Klein
Looking for Kabul-Style Corruption? Try K Street. Looking for Kabul-Style Corruption? Try K Street.
You don't have to travel across the ocean to find widespread corruption, extortion and bribery.
Nov 24, 2015 / Rebecca Gordon
This Conservation Program Is the Most Successful in US History. Why Are Republicans Destroying It? This Conservation Program Is the Most Successful in US History. Why Are Republicans Destroying It?
The Land and Water Conservation Fund is just the first of several vaunted nature and wildlife programs the GOP wants to kill.
Nov 18, 2015 / Jimmy Tobias
WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice
Movement leaders identify their goals as political, but they don’t see the movement as having the political power to achieve those goals.
Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
The Saudis Are Stumbling. They May Take the Middle East with Them. The Saudis Are Stumbling. They May Take the Middle East with Them.
America’s leading Sunni ally is proving how easily hubris, delusion, and old-fashioned ineptitude can trump even bottomless wealth.
Nov 12, 2015 / Conn Hallinan
New York’s Attorney General Just Won a Settlement With a Coal Giant for Climate Deception. Is Exxon Next? New York’s Attorney General Just Won a Settlement With a Coal Giant for Climate Deception. Is Exxon Next?
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a subpoena for nearly four decades’ worth of documents from ExxonMobil.
Nov 10, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
President Obama Says No to Keystone XL President Obama Says No to Keystone XL
The decision is a major victory for the climate movement, which transformed the dirty-energy project from an inevitability into a powerful organizing tool.
Nov 6, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Even Hillary Clinton Thinks It’s Time to Investigate Exxon Even Hillary Clinton Thinks It’s Time to Investigate Exxon
Lawmakers, candidates, and environmental groups are pressing the Department of Justice to probe the oil company’s role in sowing doubt about climate science.
Oct 30, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter