Using Courts To Build The Movement
The lesson from history is the movement is bigger than the courts. If we keep building on court decisions whether they are with the movement or against it, we will prevail.
Clinton’s Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold
Clinton’s smooth rhetoric should not change the fact that -- on a vast array of issues -- basic principles will require progressives to fight against her actual policy goals, every step of the way.
Under Heavy Criticism For Handling Of Flint’s Water Crisis, EPA Official Resigns
The official in charge of America’s Midwest region may have resigned, but the EPA is not solely to blame.
Ex-NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen: We need to act now to preserve our planet...
We speak with Hansen in Minneapolis about the valve turners, the recent IPCC report about the imminent threat of climate change and what must be done to save the planet from destruction.
New youth climate lawsuit launched against UK government on five year anniversary of Paris...
“If the wave of litigation and mobilization becomes a tidal wave, from South to North and across the generations, then governments will have no option but to listen.”
Warren, Sanders, and Gillibrand top performers on 2020 climate leadership scorecard
"We're making it clear where 2020 candidates land on the policies and practices essential to any meaningful attempt at addressing the climate crisis."
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.”
Indigenous youth embark on sub-zero, 93-mile run to protest Dakota Access Pipeline
"This is a critical step towards righting the wrongs of the past and setting our nation on a path of environmental, climate, and social justice."
A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
Under proposed Biden rule, companies could lease public lands for conservation instead of exploitation
“They have a chance to get it done, but they’re going to have to move fast.”