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This Emerging Green Technology Could Decarbonize Buildings and Provide Good Union Jobs

In New York and states across the country, thermal energy networks are helping unite the climate and labor movements while hastening a just transition away from fossil fuels.

Sara Van Horn

The cover of a book reads, “Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region.” At the bottom of the cover, there’s a picture of women sitting down in a desert, one of them holding a megaphone. In front of the book, there’s a picture of Hamza Hamouchene with his arms crossed and of Manal Shqair smiling.

InterviewClimateIsrael & Palestine

From Gaza to Atlanta, There is No Climate Justice on Occupied Land

An interview with Hamza Hamouchene and Manal Shqair on the militarization of climate politics

Ivonne Ortiz

DispatchClimate

Pollution is Displacing Black Midwesterners. White Homeowners are Profiting.

Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country's 38 other states.

Adam Mahoney

In a protest crowd, a closeup on one protester holding a sign that says "Hochul: Build of Burn"

FeatureClimateThe Socialism Issue

New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen?

We don't have to settle for neoliberal half-measures.

Liza Featherstone

Climate

How Montana Youth Turned the Tables and Won an Unprecedented Climate Victory

For the first time in U.S. history, a judge ruled young people have the right to a livable climate.

Nick Engelfried

LaborClimate

In a Summer of Record Heat, These Striking Workers Are Making Climate Demands

Pennsylvania workers represented by United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America have been on strike since late June. They're fighting for a green overhaul of the rail industry.

Sarah Lazare

Climate

Climate Justice is a Disability Issue

Efforts toward inclusivity and accessibility could make climate solutions better for everyone as a result, advocates say.

Jessica Kutz

ViewpointClimate

We Can't Afford To Ignore Cop City

In These Times Executive Director Alex Han asks us to imagine a world where the needs of the people outweigh the powerful.

Alex Han

DispatchClimate

How A Utility Giant Tried (and Failed) to Build a Pipeline Under Brooklyn

Brooklyn residents didn't learn about the new pipeline project from National Grid until two years into its construction. They were able to stop it anyways.

Sara Van Horn

DispatchClimate

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence

Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation.

Tomás Ó’Loingsigh

Climate

Can Mayor Brandon Johnson Create a Green New Deal for Chicago?

Johnson ran on a promise to make environmental justice central to policy making. Now that he’s in office, organizers expect him to deliver.

Kari Lydersen

ViewpointClimate

Biden Betrays Youth With Willow Project—and Breaks His Own Promise

We need a youth movement more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. Why Sunrise Movement organizers are fighting to end the fossil fuel era.

Dejah Powell

DispatchClimate

A Pipeline Brings Gas and Revolt to Southern Italy

“We thought nothing like this could happen in Italy until we found ourselves right in the middle of it.”

Alessandra Bergamin

DispatchClimateRural America

Will Lithium Mining Turn California's Salton Sea into a Green Energy Sacrifice Zone?

Once a tourist destination, the Salton Sea faces ecological collapse, toxic dust storms—and maybe a lithium boom.

Paige Oamek

Climate

Opposition from Progressives and Republicans Could Sink Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Permitting Deal

The West Virginia senator is “getting desperate” as objections to his permitting deal grow louder, saying he’s a victim of “revenge politics.”

Jake Johnson

FeatureCover StoryClimate

How Far Would You Go to Stop Climate Change?

A landmark legal victory opens the door to direct action.

Jack McCordick

Climate

We Need a New Constitution

When every branch of our government is corrupt to the core, where do we go from here?

Basav Sen

Climate

The Supreme Court Is Gutting the Regulatory State. Let's Look at Our Other Options.

It's time to talk about public ownership.

Thomas M. Hanna

Climate

The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Politicians Won't

The world's most existential crisis has all but fallen off Washington's agenda. But campaigners are finding success in more immediate targets.

Donna Katzin and William Minter

Climate

“Solidarity Is How We Win”: After Years of Fighting Toxic Scrapyard, Activists Celebrate a Victory in Chicago

By protesting and going out on hunger strike, environmental justice advocates helped stop a controversial metal scrapper from being built on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

Keisa Reynolds

Climate

The Existential Danger of Using the Ukraine Invasion to Ramp Up Fossil Fuel Production

Just as scientists warn we must drastically shift away from fossil fuel extraction, the Biden administration is pressing for more oil production.

Sarah Lazare

Climate

What's Missing in Don't Look Up? A Real Call to Climate Action.

The new Netflix hit offers a searing satire, but its website's action steps are wanting.

Mitch Jones

Climate

Why COP26 Flopped

Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the UN climate talks. Not so fast.

Basav Sen

FeatureClimateRural America

After Ida, This Louisiana Tribe Is Organizing Its Own Recovery

Armed with agricultural knowledge and mutual aid networks, the Houma people aren't waiting on the government to rescue them.

Joseph Bullington