Ocasio-Cortez & Markey unveil sweeping “Green New Deal” to radically shift U.S. off fossil...
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to mock the proposal on Wednesday, referring to it as a “green dream, or whatever they call it.”
Ocasio-Cortez and Markey introduce anticipated joint resolutions on Green New Deal
"We are going to transition this country into the future and we are not going to be dragged behind by our past.”
House Democrats hold first climate change hearings in more than 5 years
"Today, we turn the page on this committee from climate change denial to climate action."
At first House climate hearing in nearly a decade, 16-Year-old activist tells Congress time...
"You should put the interests of your future generations first – not just because it is the right thing to do, but because many of us have the right to vote in just a couple of years."
Two main energy and environment committees in the House hold climate change hearings
"Protecting our environment, taking climate change seriously, and putting the public interest first are not optional on this Committee, and that's what Democrats are going to do every day for the next two years."
Photo essay: The military is poisoning America’s groundwater
But the Pentagon assumes no liability and refuses to pay for cleaning up the contamination it has caused.
56 million Native American deaths caused by European colonizers changed Earth’s climate, study says
"For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is ... because of the genocide of millions of people."
BLM lists sacred land outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in newest fracking lease...
"Oil and gas has already devastated our state's air quality, water quality and flow, and public health. It's clear the Trump administration will stop at nothing to sacrifice public interest for private profits."
Police in Minnesota are using private security firms to target anti-pipeline organizers
“It’s clear that Enbridge is doing everything they can to have a very highly skilled force of security and law enforcement at their fingertips to do what they can to stop any resistance to Line 3.”
Trump’s EPA refuses to set limits on toxic chemicals in drinking water
"This administration prioritizes corporate profits over public safety, pure and simple."