Biden Needs to Do More Than Sound the Alarm on Climate Biden Needs to Do More Than Sound the Alarm on Climate
A weeklong mobilization of climate activists called The People vs. Fossil Fuels aims to put the White House’s climate record to the test—right outside the White House.
Oct 11, 2021 / Wenonah Hauter
Is Chevron’s Vendetta Against Steven Donziger Finally Backfiring? Is Chevron’s Vendetta Against Steven Donziger Finally Backfiring?
A judge sentenced the human rights lawyer to six months in prison—but the calls for environmental justice are only growing.
Oct 4, 2021 / James North
Exxon Helped Cause the Climate Crisis. It’s Time They Paid Up. Exxon Helped Cause the Climate Crisis. It’s Time They Paid Up.
The COP26 climate summit will be an opportunity to put fossil fuel companies on trial through the court of public opinion.
Sep 16, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Mark Hertsgaard
Progressive Democrats Set Out to Defund the Fossil Fuel Industry Progressive Democrats Set Out to Defund the Fossil Fuel Industry
A new bill seeks to protect both the climate and the economy.
Sep 15, 2021 / Aída Chávez
The $8 Trillion Cost of Failure The $8 Trillion Cost of Failure
The time and money it took to give Kabul to the Taliban could have been used to help struggling Americans.
Sep 9, 2021 / Dispatch / Tom Engelhardt
Big Oil’s Delay Tactics Are the New Climate Science Denialism Big Oil’s Delay Tactics Are the New Climate Science Denialism
Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry engages in “discourses of delay” to divert attention away from the crisis.
Sep 9, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Amy Westervelt
The Grim Legacy That Edwin Edwards’s Obit Writers Left Out The Grim Legacy That Edwin Edwards’s Obit Writers Left Out
The four-time Louisiana governor is instead remembered for having said that he’d lose his election if he were “caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
Aug 6, 2021 / Jason Berry
How a Powerful US Lobby Group Helps Big Oil to Block Climate Action How a Powerful US Lobby Group Helps Big Oil to Block Climate Action
The American Petroleum Institute receives millions from oil companies—and works behinds the scenes to stall or weaken legislation.
Jul 21, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Chris McGreal
It’s Time to Repeal Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Say Progressives It’s Time to Repeal Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Say Progressives
Oil and gas executives are being called on to publicly answer for their industry’s decades-long misinformation campaign and destruction of the planet.
Jul 9, 2021 / Aída Chávez
Stop the Enbridge Ecocide! Stop the Enbridge Ecocide!
From Minnesota to Massachusetts, the Canadian pipeline company is engaged in crimes against humanity and the earth—abetted by state power.
Jul 6, 2021 / Wen Stephenson