‘Not another decade to waste’ — How to speed up the clean energy transition
Energy policy expert Leah Stokes explains who’s pushing climate delay and denial — it’s not just fossil fuel companies — and what we need to do now.
‘It’s a proud day’: Oregon landowners celebrate demise of LNG project, even as legal...
A coalition of Oregon landowners, environmental groups, and Native tribes fended off Jordan Cove for more than a decade. But the legal implications of the project’s demise outside of Oregon are unclear.
Climate migrants might reach one billion by 2050
“Unless we change the way we manage our land, in the next 30 years we may leave a billion or more vulnerable poor people with little choice but to fight or flee.”
GOP attorneys general petition against EPA’s use of civil rights law for environmental justice
The petition, if successful, could have dire consequences for communities living near industrial sites.
Do beach cleanups really make a difference?
Cleanups can help people understand the problem and engage in solutions.
Congress Grills ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute on their roles...
DeSmog has collected short clips from some of Thursday’s most illuminating moments.
New York passes world’s largest carbon reduction effort to combat climate crisis
New York passed the Climate Mobilization Act on Thursday, which is the world's "largest single carbon reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever put forward."
The oil industry’s latest disaster: Trillions of gallons of buried toxic wastewater
Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.
What’s hiking the heat up so high this summer?
Economic inequality helps generate such wide temperature differentials.
‘Strong hearts to the front!’: Indigenous water protectors take direct action against Minnesota tar...
"Clean water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential to our survival... [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our well-being."