Obama is finally showing us he is willing to fight – on coal, on tar sands, and on climate. His apparent willingness to challenge the climate impacts of coal and tar sands – after years of silence on both topics – is cause for some celebration.
A new movement is putting pressure on people and institutions to dump their investments in dirty energy companies.
Two Massachusetts men anchor lobster boat in Mount Hope Bay, call for immediate coal plant shutdown to avert climate change catastrophe
Over 55 development, faith, human rights, community, and environmental groups from more than 20 countries teamed up to ask World Bank President Jim Kim to end Bank support for all fossil fuel projects unless the projects are solely focused on directly increasing energy access for the poor.
Soon it will be too late and we’ll have neither.
How climate change and Word Bank decisions lead to the crisis.
Many health care organizations have joined environmental advocates like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council in supporting a new EPA rule that would curb the deadly pollution spewed from the next generation of coal-fired power plants.
As the climate changes, a deadly disease is on the rise.
Republicans and a few coal-state Democrats have cynically blocked passage of tougher mine safety laws that would stop the murderous greed of coal profiteers.
Schools shouldn’t aid this kind of predatory marketing.
The House has passed a devastating budget plan that would destroy bedrock safeguards that have protected our health and environment for decades.
When the EPA revoked a permit for decapitating West Virginia’s mountains, some politicians decided the sky was falling.
The sound of the president’s silence on climate change and the BP oil disaster was deafening.
Here’s the perfect cure for lawmakers’ job grievances: Become coal miners for a while.
States have an inadequate or non-existent patchwork of rules, with many treating the toxic material like household garbage.