Tag: climate justice
Landmark youth climate lawsuit heads to federal appeals court
"We look forward to the opportunity to argue this case before the Ninth Circuit so that we can move quickly to trial."
90 companies helped cause the climate crisis – they should pay...
The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes.
The climate movement’s new battle cry
The unimaginable is now possible: 100% renewable energy. We can’t settle for less.
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.
Climate change demands an end to excess and greed
The responsibility for halting climate change rests firmly with each and every one of us.
New film “Little Warriors” features youth climate fight in unlikely place:...
Kids in Indiana are spearheading a movement to fend off the prospective ravages of climate change.
4 people every week were murdered while protecting the environment in...
The killings of land defenders are growing and spreading.
Donald Trump’s climate change denial ignites grassroots resistance
The resistance is real, strong and growing, and that cannot be denied.
Fighting climate change with compassion, one letter at a time
An Interview with DearTomorrow cofounders Jill Kubit and Trisha Shrum.
New York is on the verge of major climate action –...
Lawmakers stalled as advocates pushed to get an ambitious climate bill through the state senate before the legislative session ended.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Multi-million dollar agreement to import giant pandas from China collapses
Reports from advocacy groups like SF Zoo Watch and In Defense of Animals call on Mayor Daniel Lurie to halt new animal acquisitions and transform the 100-acre site from a traditional exhibition-based zoo into a 21st-century ecological park.