Tag: climate justice
Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role...
Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.
Supreme Court urged to hear youth climate case after 43 lawmakers...
Lawmakers support youth-led lawsuit demanding government accountability on climate policies.
How the world hides liability for climate deaths
Unfair family planning regimes have stalled progress in the climate fight and prevent children from having a fair start in life.
How mass protest created a breakthrough on the climate crisis in...
In the fall of 2023, activists with Extinction Rebellion Netherlands, or XR NL, were able to create an important whirlwind moment that may serve as a model for the next wave.
How the infrastructure program builds climate resilience and saves lives
“The ultimate responsibility of the government is to keep people safe.”
Climate change costs to hit $38 trillion annually by 2050
New study reveals stark economic disparities as global warming intensifies, disproportionately affecting the world's poorest nations.
Chicago sues Big Oil for climate deception and damages
Chicago is targeting industry giants such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and the American Petroleum Institute for their alleged long-term misinformation campaign.
Richest 1% fuel climate crisis with excessive emissions, Oxfam report reveals
Fueling the crisis: how the affluent few intensify global warming.
A judge has rejected Shell’s latest attempt to dismiss a Connecticut...
The ruling, coming about a year after the federal district court in Connecticut denied Shell’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, means that a trial in the case could start sometime in 2024.
Demanding an end to ‘deadly fossil fuels,’ tens of thousands take...
"It's time for Biden to declare a climate emergency and phase out the fossil fuels killing people and wildlife around the world."
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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.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.