Environment

Walker Pushes Mining Co.’s Bill, Despite Tribe’s Objections »

By Rebecca Kemble, January 8, 2013

He exaggerates the jobs and minimizes the environmental impacts of a huge open-pit mine.read more

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Gus Speth

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My guest this week is environmentalist Gus Speth, author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy.read more

Wind Energy Gets a Boost off Fiscal Cliff Deal »

By Tina Gerhardt, January 6, 2013

By bolstering a tax credit, the agreement saved at least 37,000 jobs in the wind turbine industry.read more

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Canada’s Gutting of Environmental Laws »

By Winona LaDuke, January 5, 2013

“If the prime minister will not listen to our words, perhaps he’ll pay attention to our actions.”read more

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Matt Damon Exposes Fracking in Promised Land »

By Tina Gerhardt, December 31, 2012

The film portrays the increasingly bleak economic prospects in the rural U.S.read more

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In Praise of Environmentalist Becky Tarbotton, 1973-2012 »

By Tina Gerhardt, December 30, 2012

The executive director of the Rainforest Action Network died tragically last week. "If we had more heroes like her, America and the world would be a much better place."read more

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350.org’s Divestment Strategy »

By Jaime Henn, December 12, 2012

We finally may have a strategy to take the fossil fuel companies head-on.read more

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Global Warming Talks Produce Little of Consequence »

By Amitabh Pal, December 11, 2012

American intransigence played a large part.read more

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Qatar Climate Talks Off to a Bad Start

November 28, 2012

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Prop. 37 Backer Keeps Fighting Monsanto »

By Matthew Rothschild, November 25, 2012

Meet Lori Grace, who has also thrown herself into the issues of global warming and election protection.read more

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Warnings Pile Up Before Qatar Climate Talks »

By Matthew Rothschild, November 24, 2012

The World Bank and the UN ring the alarms, while Obama fiddles.read more

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In Iraq, Worrying About Sandy »

By Cathy Breen, November 1, 2012

Trying to get news about loved ones on the Lower East Side, even as the electricity still goes off and the bombings continue in Iraq.read more

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Sandy's Lesson on Nuclear Power

October 30, 2012

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Sandy: Chronicle of a Storm Foretold »

By Matthew Rothschild, October 29, 2012

For decades now, scientists have been warning us that global warming would be delivering storms like Sandy.read more

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Sandy a Taste of Things to Come

October 29, 2012

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