Human Rights Watch Blames Louisiana Regulators for Low Birth Weights in Cancer Alley
In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.
In an Era of Climate Change, Alaska’s Predators Fall Prey to Politics
With Alaska's wildlife numbers declining, agencies are blaming — and culling — predators. The true threat is much more complex.
The Killing of Gaza’s Environment
Or How to Create an Unlivable Hellscape on One Strip of Land.
California’s Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker Gas Plants and Move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewables revolution around the world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth factor is now…
The Ultimate Twosome: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing…
In 2023, Organized Labor Became Core to the Climate Movement
In the clean energy transition, labor unions and the climate movement are finding that they're stronger together.
Why More Than 60 Indigenous Nations Oppose the Line 5 Oil Pipeline
The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.”
Inside the Pentagon’s Painfully Slow Effort to Clean Up Decades of PFAS Contamination
By Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime / Kaiser Health News Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military installation into…
How Big Oil Is Taking Us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride
With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, We're Being Gaslighted.
Paying People to Replant Tropical Forests − and Letting Them Harvest the Timber − Can Pay Off for Climate, Justice and Environment
By Jefferson S Hall, Katherine Sinacore, and Michiel van Bruegel / The Conversation Tropical forest landscapes are home to millions of Indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers. Just about every square…
COP28: 7 Food and Agriculture Innovations Needed to Protect the Climate and Feed a Rapidly Growing World
By Paul Winters / The Conversation For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023. More than 130 countries…
Worries from a Major Auto Dealer About All Electric Cars
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org John (Jack) Fitzgerald is no ordinary auto dealer. He communicates with consumer advocates. He started in the dealership business in 1956 and presently has 25…
The Last 12 Months Were Hottest the World Has Experienced in Last 125,000 Years
Global average temperatures over the past year were 1.32 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels.
Biden’s $8 Billion Quest to Solve America’s Groundwater Crisis
With little fanfare, the administration is using infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the U.S. West.
Elon Musk Wants to Dump Waste in a Community’s Water Source
The billionaire wants to dump waste in a community’s water source. Now the locals are fighting back.