Toxic waste ponds dangerously vulnerable to climate change
“They’re just an irresponsible way to store very dangerous waste.”
Revealed: The climate-conflicted directors leading the world’s top banks
65% of directors from the banks analyzed had connections to polluting industries and obstructive lobby groups.
‘Sacrifice zones’: How people of color are targets of environmental racism
A product of environmental racism, “sacrifice zones” are located near pollution hot spots and are usually communities of color.
Indigenous youth rally calls on Biden to cancel Line 3 and Dakota Access Pipelines
The White House remains silent on both of the pipeline projects, which Indigenous communities say are blatant cases of racism and injustice.
How persistent student organizing forced one of the largest public universities to divest from...
Over eight years, University of Michigan students led bold direct actions, continually recruited new students and forged ties with regents to keep $1 billion from the fossil fuel industry.
Food apartheid: Racialized access to healthy affordable food
"Food desert" has become a common term to describe low-income communities—often communities of color—where access to healthy and affordable food is limited or where there are no grocery stores.
Largest beef giant promises to go deforestation-free by 2035
“JBS has just promised at least 14 more years of forest destruction.”
Six ways Chevron imperils climate, human rights, and racial justice
These six examples illustrate a stunning array of corporate abuse, deception, and misconduct by one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations.
Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta nearly caused ‘another deepwater horizon catastrophe’ in Gulf of Mexico
“The Biden administration’s January 27 Executive Order temporarily pausing oil and gas permitting on federal lands and waters needs to be made permanent.”
Half of global methane emissions come from aquatic ecosystems – much of this is...
We can effectively reduce methane emissions and help mitigate climate change with the right land use and management choices.