Puerto Rico got rid of its coal ash pits. Now the company responsible is...
This past January, Itiba De Jesus moved to St. Cloud, in Osceola County, Florida, in search of affordable housing and land to expand her sustainable agriculture project. She has lived in Florida for 17...
View ArticleNew York’s Williams Pipeline is denied (but not dead)
When Lee Ziesche heard that New York state regulators had denied the operator of the Williams Pipeline a permit it needed to begin construction, she celebrated with a hearty plate of pasta. She had...
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The town that online shopping built — and women are trying to save
Anna Sanchez felt a surge of pride as she watched her 9-year-old son, Nathan, pull on the boxy, gray and white costume. The outfit had been made by a fellow demonstrator rallying against the stifling...
View ArticleCNN ran a ‘climate justice’ segment and this is progress
Now that climate change is finally becoming a thing on cable news, networks also seem to be catching on to the existence of climate injustice. In the wake of another week of devastating storms, CNN...
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Climate action could avert hundreds of heat-related deaths in these 15 U.S....
Taking action on global warming can now be measured in lives saved rather than degrees of temperature change. That’s according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, which...
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Big Oil and environmentalists alike are mad about the EPA’s new summer...
One of the Trump administration’s latest environmental regulatory rollbacks has managed to piss off both Big Oil and environmentalists. The Environmental Protection Agency announced at the end of May...
View ArticleFire, displacement, diplomas: It’s graduation season in Paradise
Speaking at his high school graduation in Paradise, California, this June, Garrett Malcolm described what he loved about growing up in his hometown: wandering into the woods, climbing down canyons, and...
View ArticleOn the road to the Green New Deal, New York’s latest climate legislation may...
Update: A new version of this bill was announced on June 18th If the national Green New Deal is the dashing young hare in the race to enact sweeping climate law, then New York’s Climate and Community...
View ArticleCuomo guts key labor provisions in last-minute changes to New York’s landmark...
Anyone watching the climate bill negotiations in Albany this week could be suffering some whiplash. On Monday, it seemed that New York state lawmakers had reached a deal with grassroots groups on the...
View ArticleTrump’s climate ‘plan’ is finally here, and it’s already headed to court
The Trump administration just placed a nail in the coffin of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which had for the first time required states to set goals aimed at reducing carbon emissions coming from...
View ArticleNew report: How green orgs can retain diverse staff
People of color are among the biggest advocates for the environment — after all, many of them live in areas disproportionately impacted by pollution and climate change. So why are so many green...
View ArticleU.N. report: ‘Human rights might not survive’ climate crisis
A United Nations watchdog on poverty and human rights is the latest to call attention to the looming threat of a “climate apartheid.” In a report presented to the Human Rights Council on Friday, U.N....
View ArticleNational Grid to NYC customers: Support the Williams Pipeline or no new service
On Monday, the leading distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, National Grid, sent an urgent-sounding email to many of its New York customers — not about summer energy savings, but about why they...
View ArticleYour city probably won’t feel like itself in 30 years
Even brief variations in a city’s seasonal weather can totally throw entire metro areas into chaos. Montreal, Canada, experienced record-breaking heat last year that led to 66 preventable deaths....
View ArticleAs Amazon Prime Day orders roll in, U.S. workers walk out
It’s Amazon Prime Day, but there’s a lot more to pay attention to than the deals. On the first day of the company’s annual summer sale, many Amazon employees protested the company’s labor conditions...
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Here’s how hot your hometown will feel by midcentury
Residents of Harris County, Texas are no stranger to heat. The swampy Houston metro area averages nearly 40 days per year with temperatures in the 100 degrees F or higher range. But, according to a...
View ArticleProtests grow as millions demand resignation of Puerto Rico’s governor
“¡Ricky Renuncia!” Calls for the resignation of Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, echoed through the streets, flooded social media, and even fell from the sky following last week’s leak of...
View ArticleDuring deadly heat wave, New York utility cut power to high-risk neighborhoods
Almost half Americans spent the weekend trying to beat record-breaking temperatures. But for a large swath of New Yorkers, staying home and turning on the air conditioning was not an option, as utility...
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The deadliest environmental causes in 2018: Protesting mining, agribusiness,...
In December 2018, the bodies of brothers Neri and Domingo Esteban Pedro were found along the banks of Guatemala’s Yal Witz River, shot in the head. The two had recently rallied against a dam in the...
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A scrappy solution to the fashion industry’s giant waste problem
On a sunny June day in Brooklyn, sunlight filtered through the frosted glass in an army terminal turned warehouse, where a dozen or so design students were sifting through a floor-to-ceiling hill of...
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