Topic: Environment

  • No one had to die in Oklahoma

    The fact that most schools in Oklahoma don't have storm shelters shows how the system prepares for disasters--it doesn't.

  • United against the pipeline

    Native Americans leaders representing 10 sovereign nations explain why they walked out on meetings with the State Department.

  • Marching against Monsanto

    Activists with the Anti-Monsanto Project will march in California's capital against the genetically modified seed company.

  • The new plunder of Native lands

    The resistance to environmental destruction must be connected with the struggle to defend the rights and sovereignty of Native peoples.

  • Only you can prevent fracking

    An environmental artist is being threatened with fines and jail time for using Smokey the Bear in an anti-fracking campaign.

  • Fighting to label Frankenfoods

    A proposed bill would mandate the labeling of genetically modified foods--an important protection for consumers.

  • Ecosocialists chart a path forward

    An enthusiastic meeting in New York took a big step toward creating an anti-capitalist wing of the environmental movement.

  • Bringing together eco and socialism

    The climate justice movement has to confront not only the free market, but a political system warped by corporate power.

  • An inevitable spill

    A tar sands spill in Arkansas is the latest result of the corporate drive for profits that is wrecking the environment.

  • Imperial recipes for a burnt planet

    The international competition between powerful states--the U.S. government chief among them--is a critical factor driving the environmental crisis.

  • Protesting a Vermont pipeline

    Activists gathered at a public hearing in Hinesburg, Vt., to speak out against the expansion of a Vermont Gas natural gas pipeline.

  • Tackling the jobs vs. the environment myth

    The AFL-CIO's support for expanding the U.S. pipeline network perpetuates an old oil industry myth designed to pit activists against each other.

  • The lessons of Fukushima

    Two years after the meltdown at the Fukushima power station, has anyone heeded the warning about nuclear energy?

  • Divest to save the planet

    Activist campaigns focused on divestment from fossil fuel companies are hitting colleges and communities across the U.S.

  • What's in the climate change bill?

    Two Democrats have unveiled a proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions--but will the Obama administration fight for it?

  • The attack of the frackademics

    Barack Obama's nominee for Energy Secretary supports fracking--and he's not the only academic who crossed the line between science and propaganda.

  • The tar sands fight is the right fight

    Protests against the Keystone XL pipeline are part of the broader struggle against the energy industry's disregard for the environment.

  • Why labor should oppose the pipeline

    The co-president of National Nurses United explains why stopping the Keystone XL pipeline would benefit all workers.

  • Hearing all voices in the movement

    If the voices of the oppressed are silenced in the name of "unity," the environmental movement will never bring about change.

  • New York's victory over the frackers

    The New York Department of Health's delay of a critical study may stop the governor from issuing new gas drilling permits.

  • Sounding the global warming alarm

    Some 30,000 to 50,000 people stood before 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest protest in the history of the U.S. climate movement.

  • No investment in polluters

    About 200 students at the University of Vermont gathered to demand that their school divest from fossil fuels.

  • Nature's mass protests against climate change

    This weekend's protest against the tar sands pipeline will be big--but nature is responsible for far larger demonstrations against climate change.

  • Marching for the future

    The Ecosocialist Contingent will provide one focal point for activists at the February 17 Forward on Climate Rally in Washington.

  • What must be done to stop climate change?

    One week ahead of a critical protest in Washington, we are at a potential turning point in the movement for ecological justice and environmental sanity.