Environmental Issues

Pittsburgh reservoir

Pittsburgh’s Water System Is Why We Shouldn’t Run America Like a Business Pittsburgh’s Water System Is Why We Shouldn’t Run America Like a Business

For Pittsburgh, help from the private sector came at the cost of public health.

Nov 30, 2017 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

A Gallop in the Wrong Direction

A Gallop in the Wrong Direction A Gallop in the Wrong Direction

The Trump administration continues to push coal and defund alternative energy.

Nov 28, 2017 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine

A former Time editor condemns the billionaires’ bid to buy a stalwart advocate of climate action.

Nov 22, 2017 / Charles Alexander

Guanabara Rio Pollution

Pollution Kills an Estimated 9 Million People Every Year Pollution Kills an Estimated 9 Million People Every Year

And the world’s poorest people bear the brunt.

Nov 21, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Charlie Baker climate

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Is a Climate Criminal—and I’m Willing to Go to Jail to Say So Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Is a Climate Criminal—and I’m Willing to Go to Jail to Say So

A big part of what makes nonviolent civil disobedience powerful is the willingness of those engaging in it to suffer the consequences.

Nov 21, 2017 / Wen Stephenson

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These Women Nobelists Are Fighting for Grassroots Activists in Central America These Women Nobelists Are Fighting for Grassroots Activists in Central America

They’re bringing limelight to women-led movements resisting land grabs and destruction from mining companies, hydroelectric plants, and monoculture plantations.

Nov 17, 2017 / Laura Carlsen

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness (Video)

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness (Video) The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness (Video)

A little-known bureaucrat named James Cason is reshaping the Department of the Interior.

Nov 17, 2017 / OppArt / The Nation

Georgia coal plant

Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis? Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis?

Professor Kevin Anderson is one of the few climate scientists willing to grapple with our unsustainable economic system.

Nov 16, 2017 / Kate Aronoff

S.O.S. Puerto Rico

S.O.S. Puerto Rico S.O.S. Puerto Rico

As the crisis mounts government support dwindles.

Nov 16, 2017 / OppArt / Martin Kozlowski

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness

A little-known bureaucrat named James Cason is reshaping the Department of the Interior.

Nov 16, 2017 / Feature / Adam Federman

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