Death on the Dakota Access: Oil & gas boom generates dangerous pipeline jobs amid...
We speak with Antonia Juhasz, a longtime oil and energy journalist, about her new investigation for Pacific Standard magazine on the deaths of two men who worked on the Dakota Access pipeline.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 12
Energy Transfer pipeline explodes in Pennsylvania, Trump calls Puerto Rico an 'unsung success', the fight against world hunger, and more.
Climate change supercharges Hurricane Florence as 1.5 million evacuate in Carolinas & Virginia
People up and down the coast are preparing for extreme flooding and what the National Hurricane Center is calling a “life-threatening storm surge.”
As 1.5 million flee Hurricane Florence, worries grow over half dozen nuclear power plants...
"Flooding-prone Brunswick Nuclear Plant among rickety old Fukushima-style reactors in likely path of Hurricane Florence."
Avenue Capital’s plans to revive West’s largest coal-fired power plant spark protests from Navajo...
Members of the Navajo nation traveled from Arizona to Avenue Capital Group’s offices in New York City to push for a 2019 closure of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), near Page, Arizona.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 11
Native American tribes sue Trump over Keystone XL. Japan aims to overthrow whaling ban, and more.
Conservationists fear Japan’s ‘blatant’ attempt to overturn whaling moratorium could be accepted by International...
"Member countries must stand together and push progress towards whale protection, not let this commission be pulled back into the bygone era of commercial whaling."
Rise for Climate: Tens of thousands march in San Francisco calling for fossil-free world
The protest came just days before the start of the Global Climate Action Summit being organized by California Governor Jerry Brown.
‘Major victory:’ Landowner’s legal challenge halts construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana
"We have been tased, pepper sprayed, put into choke holds, and beaten with batons to stop this illegal construction that ETP was carrying out despite not having an easement for the land."
Pipeline spills more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into Indiana River
This is the second pipeline spill to impact an Indiana waterway within the past six months.