Environment

While Americans were off celebrating the fourth of July, Canadian pipeline company giant Enbridge worked a deal with the Wisconsin Budget about its controversial proposed Line 61 tar sands pipeline expansion project. This proposal is not yet final, so let's hope it does not pass.

Rick Berman is a political consultant who plays so dirty even Big Oil is not interested him. This man takes funding from corporations and uses that money to publicly slam environmentalists, low-wage workers, and any of his enemies.

The new law marks the third comprehensive effort by a state to prevent utilities from using consumers’ monthly bills to fund political efforts.

Climate activists say this latest effort, even if motivated by monetary loss for BP rather than concern for the environment, is a win.

A recent surge in youth-led climate activism has revived a near decade-long effort to divest New York from the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis.

The money that has been refunded to these companies in recent years could have restored an estimated 1,500 orphan well sites.

Without major environmental laws, it makes it easier for corporate interests to push for harmful deregulation.

As much as 22 percent of power usage in New England on June 24 came from behind-the-meter solar.

Nebraska farmers return land to Native American tribe, Parkland students join Chicagoans to march against gun violence, audio recordings of children separated from their parents at the border, and more.

The planet needed a big win, and from the top to the bottom of the ballot there were a number of crucial victories.