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Energy, Environment & Climate
Ten days ago Joe Biden did something remarkable, and almost without precedent – he actually said no to big oil. His administration halted the granting of new permits for building...
Bill McKibben
February 2021. A rare Valentine's Day winter storm wallops Texas with snow and a deep freeze. The storm knocked out power for at least 69 percent of people across the...
Ben Jealous
James Hiatt lives in an area along the Mississippi River in Louisiana that has been dubbed “Cancer Alley.” In a region teeming with chemical plants and oil and gas refineries,...
Northern Manitoba is seeing temperatures above zero. We’ve had weather that’s unheard of these last two months. Thousands of people in our region depend on winter roads to survive -...
Niki Ashton
I have a neighbor who likes to mock me for driving an electric car. “You are lucky to have fossil fuels to make the electricity you need to charge your...
Steve Hanley
Soil. It’s where our food comes from and the foundation of all life on land. The way human beings have traditionally farmed in the modern era devastates the soil. It...
The world—its politics, its economy, and its journalism—has trouble coping with the scale of the climate crisis. We can’t quite wrap our collective head around it, which has never been...
In September, President Joe Biden strengthened his standing as the most climate-ambitious president in our history. In a brave move, Biden canceled each and every oil- and gas-drilling lease in...
As North America slept, delegates from around the world concluded the global climate conference in Dubai, when the chair—local oilman Sultan al-Jaber—quick-gavelled through an agreement that included a sentence calling...
Allowing the fossil fuel industries to wield their power in the UN’s climate talks means pulling punches against the greatest existential threat faced by humanity, all to spare those companies...
When 2023 began, it seemed likely to be just one more year in the ongoing collapse of the world’s climate system. We were at the tail end of a long...
By Bill McKibben
By Naomi Klein
Economy & Economic Justice / Energy, Environment & Climate
By Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin
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