As polls shows climate action winning issue, green campaigners mobilize for Democrats in key...
"Arizona, Iowa, Maine, and South Carolina could hardly be more different, but solid majorities of voters in each state support building a clean energy economy."
NYC public schools to excuse climate strikers
The New York City public schools will allow their 1.1 million students to skip school for Friday's global climate strike, The New York Times...
Impending Trump Dakota Access easement is illegal, Standing Rock Sioux say
The move to grease the wheels for dirty energy infrastructure sets the Trump administration up for more clashes with protesters.
The urgent climate case for defunding the Pentagon
Is it finally time to defund war?
Radical tactics are likely to help the climate movement, not hurt it
Why are people resorting to these tactics? The common view among activists is that conventional methods have failed to bring about any meaningful change on climate issues.
5 ways climate change will affect plants and animals
Warming temperatures, stronger storms and rising seas present a cascade of challenges that researchers are racing to understand.
Big oil knew climate change could be ‘catastrophic.’ study shows heat could become deadlier...
“Our data indicate that with the continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions, the temperature effects of climate change are projected to be five times deadlier than recent U.S. flu seasons."
Organic farm in W. Va. imperiled by gas pipeline construction
“It goes beyond the financial. This property was our hope, our dream, our future, our children’s future."
Oil industry launches lobbying blitz as Congress targets fossil fuel subsidies
A lobbying group representing large fracking companies is pressing Democrats to keep in place billions of dollars of subsidies that drillers receive.
Top 10 most contaminated groundwater sites revealed in first major coal ash pollution study
The report contains examples of several well-documented instances of residential tap water contaminated by coal ash.