Climate

Mist rises over a barren landscape with a single green patch

LaborViewpointClimate

The Search for Green Common Ground

A capitalist transition to electric cars pits auto workers, transit riders and frontline communities against each other. What happens when they sit down together?

Emmett Hopkins

ClimateRural America

Trump Meets Hurricane Victims then Heads to Fundraisers with the Oil Bosses Driving the Climate Crisis

"Hosting a fundraiser with Big Oil CEOs while we're still counting the bodies from Hurricane Helene is like hosting a fundraiser with the NRA in the midst of a school shooting.”

Edward Carver

ViewpointClimate

Citibank Is Bankrolling The Largest Offshore Oil Facility In the U.S.—Just Miles From My Home

As part of the historic Summer of Heat campaign, I went to Citibank’s headquarters to demand climate justice—where dozens of protesters were arrested.

Sue Page

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A "Sustainable Square Mile" Tests the Power of Biden's Billions for Climate Justice

Can $3 billion in hyperlocal funding for environmental justice create lasting change?

Adam Mahoney

ViewpointClimateRural America

Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever

Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken.

Peter Gelderloos

ViewpointClimate

Scenes From a Sacrifice Zone: South Baltimore Residents Fight Back Against Industrial Pollution

“I want everybody in this community to be able to breathe clean air, and it's time to say enough's enough.”

Maximillian Alvarez

CultureClimate

This Earth Day, Common Ground Urges us to Rethink Our Relationship With Soil

Regenerative agricultural practices can be transformative, but only if we let them.

Siri Chilukuri

LaborClimate

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.

PalestineInterviewClimate

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