Ubiquitous pipelines crisscrossing America and worries over climate change raise the question: Does transporting oil and gas serve the public interest?
Climate Crisis
Posted inCoronavirus
The End of American Exceptionalism
The word means different things to different people—but it’s gone.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Coronavirus Just Might Help Us Save the Planet
The last recession brought us the fracking boom, and this one might end our addiction to cheap oil.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s Time to Nationalize the Airlines
America’s most consumer-abusing and environment-degrading industry wants us to bail it out. Instead, we should take it over.
Posted inAmerica and the World
France Turns to Citizen-Legislators to Craft Climate Reforms
Can a small group of randomly selected people succeed where French politicians have failed?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Can the Concrete Jungle Sink CO2?
Proposed legislation in New York attacks a leading source of emissions that rarely gets noticed.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Members of Congress Own Up to $93 Million in Fossil Fuel Stocks
As dire climate change projections mount, one in four members of Congress is invested in oil, gas, or coal interests.
Posted inPolitics
Tom Steyer’s Long Journey
The former Robert Rubin protégé now runs for president condemning corporate power. But he also says that only a business leader can win that argument.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Protesters Reject Trump’s War Cries
In Washington and around the nation, the anti-war movement mobilizes for a just future for workers, the climate, and the world.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Jane Fonda and Friends March (Again) for the Climate
For 11 straight weeks, Fonda has led Fire Drill Fridays, an effort to wake up Congress about the dangers of the climate crisis.
