New scientist festival shuns fossil fuel sponsorship after campaign pressure
The festival’s shift from BP and Shell partnerships comes as a growing number of cultural institutions have cut ties with oil and gas companies.
Climate justice is racial justice is gender justice
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Methane Discovered in Drinking Water Near Fracking Wells
A Stanford researcher found the highest risk of leaks was from shallow natural gas wells drilled in California, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Minnesota Attorney General sues Exxon, Koch and API for climate deception
“Exxon chose profit over people. It’s time they’re held accountable.”
Looking backwards: 2020-1944
Perhaps you’ll recognize the reference in the title to this article to a novel published in 1888. It was the third most...
Biden should end the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon
Using a little-known provision of trade agreements, oil and gas corporations are able to pit their profits against democracies and our climate. It’s time to end the practice.
Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order.
Trump EPA’s refusal to strengthen air quality standards most likely to harm communities of...
“There is evidence that Black people have three times the hazard from long-term exposure to fine particles [soot] than the general population."
Environmentalists urge Democrats to join Sanders in opposing dirty energy bill
“As a nation, our job is to move away from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy and energy efficiency,” says Sanders. “This bill does the opposite.”
Déjà vu all over again
Such consequences that you have never encountered in your history.