Oil and Gas

Note to Exxon: Lying About Climate Change Isn’t Free Speech—It’s Fraud

Note to Exxon: Lying About Climate Change Isn’t Free Speech—It’s Fraud Note to Exxon: Lying About Climate Change Isn’t Free Speech—It’s Fraud

Facing hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages, the fossil-fuel giant is trying to change the subject.

May 5, 2016 / Mark Hertsgaard

Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them

Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them

It’s time for Harvard to kick the carbon lobby out of the Kennedy School. But don’t hold your breath.

May 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Wen Stephenson

Coal worker leads on tour of old coal facility

Just Because Big Coal Is Collapsing Doesn’t Mean Appalachia Has to Follow Just Because Big Coal Is Collapsing Doesn’t Mean Appalachia Has to Follow

Is an environmentally sustainable economic transition possible?

May 4, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Oil Worker Bahrain

Did OPEC Just Start Preparing for the End of the Oil Era? Did OPEC Just Start Preparing for the End of the Oil Era?

The debacle in Doha may be the beginning of the end for the old oil order.

Apr 28, 2016 / Michael T. Klare

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

Grassroots activists have pushed the needle far beyond the Democratic establishment.

Apr 15, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Fracking in action

Lead Isn’t the Only Threat to Drinking Water Lead Isn’t the Only Threat to Drinking Water

The EPA abandoned a study of fracking pollution in Wyoming. Then one of the agency’s scientists kept investigating.

Apr 13, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview. The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.

Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.

Apr 6, 2016 / Naomi Klein

Spectra AIM pipeline protest

A High-Pressure Pipeline Next to a Nuclear Power Plant… What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A High-Pressure Pipeline Next to a Nuclear Power Plant… What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The construction of a gas pipeline within 1500 feet of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors could spell disaster for New York.

Mar 31, 2016 / Alison Rose Levy and Ellen Cantarow

Signs opposing fracking

Demand That President Obama End Fracking on Public Lands Demand That President Obama End Fracking on Public Lands

A continuation of the practice could have a disastrous effect on our climate.

Mar 23, 2016 / NationAction

Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry

Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry

Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They were wrong. Very wrong.

Mar 23, 2016 / Feature / Bill McKibben

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