Vermont faces legal challenge from big oil over law requiring climate damage payments
A lawsuit from major fossil fuel groups aims to derail Vermont’s groundbreaking plan to make polluters pay for climate disasters.
Trump budget undercuts US commitment to global wildlife conservation
For the planet’s most spectacular and endangered wildlife, public participation in the seemingly mundane wrangling over budgetary priorities has never been more important.
Unfair food pricing is killing family farms and regenerative farming
In February, a dairy farmer friend sent me a note confiding that a few farmers she knows are living on cereal until...
Youth strikes worldwide demand climate action that centers ‘people not profit’
"The current system is widening the inequality gap—it has no place in our society."
Exposure to air pollution from traffic increases risk of low birth weight, study shows
Term low birth weight, defined in the study as a weight less than 5 pounds 8 ounces, can have lifelong implications for health, with increased risk for diabetes, heart disease and hypertension in later life.
Meet the money and people fueling the contested Bayou Bridge Pipeline
Here are the interests pushing Bayou Bridge despite the substantial public opposition.
Trump administration downplays danger of air pollution in new regulatory rollbacks
"Now, to benefit coal interests, the U.S. EPA wants to simply ignore the health impacts that occur below their self-imposed limit."
New report makes case against Big Oil and plastic industry for plastic waste crisis
A decades-long campaign about the recyclability of plastics despite internal knowledge contrary to its claims lays out a foundation for potential lawsuits.
The radical philosophy of extinction rebellion
"When it's a fight for your life, you're willing to throw down, especially if you are doing it in a community together."
Fighting climate change with compassion, one letter at a time
An Interview with DearTomorrow cofounders Jill Kubit and Trisha Shrum.