Environmental Case Hinged on Racist Judge’s Opinion
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in an environmental case was based on a dissent by a racist judge who revealed confidential information to a third party.
The Modest Start of a People’s Climate Rebellion?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This thing you may not have heard about could just be what saves humanity from extinction.
Can Civil Disobedience Turn the Tide Against Global Warming?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The consequences of man-made climate change are real and devastating. The grassroots are coming to terms with the reality that progress will not come from the top — they must lead. OPINION
Study Shows We’re Hurtling Toward a Climate-Related Health Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes A review article in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ calls for drastic action to stop climate change-related deaths and an increase in global inequality.
Trump Shutdown Compounds Threat to Public Safety and Protection
Reading Time: 6 minutes Federal agencies had already been reeling from the Trump administration’s disdain for regulation. The shutdown adds insult to injury — and puts Americans at risk.
Fighting Algae With Algae — A Problem Solving Itself
Reading Time: 2 minutes It sounds odd, but algae is being harnessed to reduce instances of algal bloom growing in lakes and reservoirs.
We All Have a Role to Play in What Will Be the Biggest Story of 2019
Reading Time: 14 minutes A bracing look at the real effects of global warming and a reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for just so long. There are however some real global policy solutions that can still make a difference for our kids and grandkids — if we take substantive collective action.
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Loses Key Permit — Energy Companies Scramble
Reading Time: 6 minutes Environmental activists scored a huge victory after a Virginia judge overturned a permit for the massive pipeline. Now big energy companies are lobbying Congress to overturn the ruling.
Farmers’ Dilemma: Save Bees or Save Themselves
Reading Time: 4 minutes The financial cost of saving the bee is stinging farmers. Is it worth it?
As California Burns, Trump Administration Battles Climate Lawsuit
Reading Time: 5 minutes Their October trial date delayed, a group of 21 youth fight to show that the government knew climate change was coming — yet took actions that made it worse.
California Is Burning — Here’s Why
Reading Time: 22 minutes 30 percent of California is forested. There are over 129 million dead trees, residential buildings increasingly closer to wildland, and conflicts about who’s responsible for managing it all. What could go wrong?
Who Pays the Price for Oklahoma’s Man-Made Earthquakes?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Since fracking began, Oklahomans have been subjected to man-made earthquakes. Now the state has one question: Who will pay for the damage caused by these not-so-natural disasters?
Monsanto’s Roundup Harms Bees, Report Confirms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Roundup has recently been proven to annihilate bees — pollinators essential to food production. Add it to the list of practices that have been killing them for 70 years.
Washington State Judge Rules Against Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Washington State judge dismisses climate change lawsuit in a blow to a group of youth activists. While a setback, the activists vow to continue the fight.
‘No Future’ Youth to Get Day in Court — Just Before Midterms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The US Supreme Court has upheld a group’s right to sue the federal government because climate change is robbing young Americans of their future — and the court date couldn’t be much trickier for the GOP.
Dick Russell Talks Contamination Crisis: Is Watts the New Flint?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Author Dick Russell talks with RT’s Watching the Hawks about his WhoWhatWhy story on Watts — a neighborhood of Los Angeles that may become the new Flint, Michigan.
Watts: Another Flint?
Reading Time: 8 minutes The billion-dollar redevelopment of a housing project in the South Los Angeles community of Watts raises disturbing questions about lead contamination in the soil, air, and water — and how Latino and African American children are already suffering the impacts.
Will Pruitt Math Harm Your Air and Water?
Reading Time: 8 minutes EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to change the way the agency measures the costs and benefits of rules. It may sound wonky, but critics call it “sophisticated sabotage” — aimed at gutting rules protecting public health and the environment.
No Sh-t: Grassroots Activists Take on Big Ag — And Win
Reading Time: 7 minutes Can the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act level the playing field between factory farms and community activists? One community showed how it can be done.
Nearsighted Legislation Prohibits Grid Upgrade in Puerto Rico
Reading Time: 3 minutes An emergency relief act demands that all infrastructure be replaced as it was before a natural disaster. But what if the original infrastructure was disastrous beforehand? Build it bad again, it seems.