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Bill MckibbenNY Daily News |
A May 1 Senate hearing on the industry’s history of deception is a signal of what a second-term Biden administration might be willing and able to...
In recent days, the Biden Administration has been on a remarkable roll when it comes to the environment, with one key announcement after another...
If Amazon and Apple and Microsoft wanted to avoid a world where, by century’s end, people had 60% less money to spend on buying whatever they plan...
Speeding up the necessary transition to renewable energy requires political mobilization to break the power of the fossil fuel industry.
The morally right side doesn’t lose the crucial battles: the arc of the moral universe is long, but it does bend toward justice. We know that lesson...
Everyone’s job this decade is to arrest the sudden and sickening lurch upward in temperature, so that there’s somewhere at least a little stable...
There’s no way we can build out renewable energy fast enough to meet this kind of extra demand—it’s going to be at the bleeding edge of the...
If a chemical company pollutes a site, the superfund law has been a way to make it pay for the remediation—so if Vermont’s flooding cost its...
I live in the mountains of the Northeast, and normally the last thing I want in the spacious days of summer is something to watch on TV. But this year...
We simply “waited too long,” said ExxonMobil's top executive last week. But never mind, the important thing is that we made “above-average...
We’ve just come through the warmest December and January ever measured globally, and February seems certain to follow.
With the planet having just endured the hottest twelve months in human history, it’s not surprising that winter has been a dreary affair across...
Our institutions—from the White House to the university president, from the bank CEO to the labor leader, from the newspaper editor to the religious...
Last week, Bank of America engaged in perhaps the single most irresponsible about-face of the climate era.
That this is a huge victory can’t be said strongly enough—for the people in the Gulf who have fought so long and hard as well as for the planet.
Yes, there are always devils in the details. And it doesn’t guarantee long-term victory, but it sets up a process where victory is possible.
The campaign is designed to get the world’s third largest retailer to pressure its bank—Citi—to stop funding fossil fuel expansion.
Next month you can join with others who "think it is an honor to rise in defense of the planet we love, and the places where we live."
If the villainy of the fossil fuel industry or the hard work of climate politics are weighing you down, wait until you hear about the future of energy...
And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.
Such a win would make it easier to boost this beleaguered presidential campaign—which has got to be a central focus for anyone worried about the...
The global climate agreement that emerged from Dubai is literally meaningless—and potentially meaningful. Now it's up to us.
Language doesn’t translate into action; it just gives activists one more weapon to use when they return from Dubai to the nations, states, cities,...
The point of climate negotiations should not be to produce a deal, it’s to stop the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And that means a...
It’s difficult to imagine anything much more systemically evil than this latest spate of bids by the oil companies and oil countries to keep...
As far as the climate (and, truthfully, much else) is concerned, 2023 has felt like one nasty jack-in-the-box moment after another; there have been a...
To pause this fight in Gaza and reach some kind of modus vivendi just might be practice for tackling the larger question that hangs before us.
A Department of Energy report promotes a new system that could remake the energy grid.
Insurers are slow to adopt policies to restrict financing for new oil and gas facilities.
Given that inflation and the youth vote are two of Biden’s biggest problems right now, maybe he’ll seize the moment.
What Colombia is to cocaine, the U.S. is to hydrocarbons—a supplier/pusher of molecules so dangerous that the two poles are now melting fast.
The Biden Administration faces one of its most profound climate choices this autumn: Should it continue to allow the expansion of...
It reminds me a lot of Keystone XL saga, but with perhaps even more at stake.
Earlier this year, the Biden Administration approved the Willow Project, a huge oil-drilling complex to be built in Alaska on thawing permafrost that...
Keeping movements alive is hard work—they run on volunteer energy, and they can be derailed by too much success, too much failure, too much internal...
New data last week from University of Chicago researchers showed that across South Asia, air pollution—mostly from burning fossil fuels—is robbing...