Energy, Environment & Climate Archives

Unpacking The “Existential” Climate Crisis With Bill McKibben

Much of Maui has been decimated following one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, wildfires are still ravaging Canada, ice in the arctic is melting rapidly, sea levels are...

Chris Hayes

Energy, Environment & Climate

This Year Is Set To Be The Hottest In History – Congress Must Act Now

If there is not bold, immediate action to address the climate crisis, the quality of life that we are leaving our kids is very much in question. The last eight...

Bernie Sanders

Energy, Environment & Climate / Democracy & Government

Why The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous Is Targeting Red States

In the world of climate advocacy groups, the Sierra Club is perhaps best known as a grassroots, progressive heavyweight. For years, it has fought to close coal plants, one by...

Justin Worland

Energy, Environment & Climate

Melting Alaska Wants To Drill More Oil

If you wanted an example of the reason we’re still losing the fight to slow the earth’s heating, the proposed Willow oil project in Alaska should suffice. This should be...

Bill McKibben

Energy, Environment & Climate

Bill McKibben Discusses A Decade-Long Activist Crusade To Shame Banks Into Stopping Investment In Fossil Fuels

When Bill McKibben sought to put the fossil fuel industry out of business, he made his case in the media. Then he took his show on the road. Hitting roughly...

John Woodside

Energy, Environment & Climate

Putin’s War Shows Autocracies And Fossil Fuels Go Hand In Hand

Democracies are making more progress than autocracies when it comes to climate action. But divestment campaigns can put pressure on the most recalcitrant of political leaders At first glance, last...

Bill McKibben

Energy, Environment & Climate

The Movement To Take Money Away From Fossil Fuels Is Working

I remember the night in the autumn of 2012 when the first institution in the U.S. publicly committed to divest from fossil fuel. I was with a group of other...

Bill McKibben

Energy, Environment & Climate

When Will We Have The Last Oil Spill?

Perhaps the first serious shadow to fall on the oil age came in the winter of 1969, after a blowout on a well, six miles off the coast of Santa...

Bill McKibben

Energy, Environment & Climate

Starving The Beast

With massive new wins, divestment pushes ever harder on the fossil fuel industry. Willie Sutton robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.” But if he was still alive, he’d...

Bill McKibben

Energy, Environment & Climate / Immigration

Our Responsibility To Climate Migrants

Last November, as the most active Atlantic hurricane season ever recorded ground to a close, the last two big storms – Eta and Iota – ripped into Central America. A...

Bill McKibben

Energy, Environment & Climate

Climate Change Is About Greed. It’s Time For Big Oil To Pay Us Back

Four interconnected pieces of climate change-related news from the past two weeks reveal America's predicament. And they also show the way forward, which ultimately must include oil companies' paying restitution...