Environment

There are some industrial products and processes that are so inherently dangerous they cannot be made safe through technological innovations or regulatory reforms and simply need to be discontinued.read more

We are witnessing the failure of an entire system, rather than of one operator.read more

If global warming is the culprit, we’ll need to send more than helicopters and international aid teams to Pakistan. We’ll need nothing less that “a sweeping ecological transformation of society.”read more

Now that the BP oil well has been plugged, it’s more urgent than ever to address the Gulf Coast “dead zone.”read more

The oil industry spills again, this time in Michigan. What’s so striking is how formulaic the oil spill story has become.read more

Call me cranky, but as a Westerner, wilderness is not an abstraction.read more

Environmental catastrophe is an inevitable outcome when energy companies are operating at the very edge of technological capacity.read more

Do we have a hope of getting off oil? It's tough, but not impossible.read more

Now is the time to pass a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill.read more

We have a choice: We can pull a fast one on future generations, or we can take serious action, now, on climate changread more

As I return with one final sigh off my rocky walk, I still carry my worry with me. I feel for the Gulf residents watching their beloved coast, their healing place – birds, water, reeds – get tarred and choked. I cannot imagine their sadness.read more

Community gardens are a way to do community organizing, and community organizing is at the heart of the U.S. Social Forum.read more

Not only by making BP pay, but by damning the pro-corporate philosophy that brought about this crisis, Obama showed real leadership.read more

No, it was not a chastened group at the hearings. They came out for even more offshore oil drilling.read more

If the BP disaster tells us anything, it is that government and corporations can’t be left alone with the public’s business.read more