Climate

Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 21, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

One of the Greatest Environmental Threats Almost No One Knows About

David Helvarg

Activists Push the Democrats for Real Solutions on Climate Change

The Democrats' climate platform beats the Republicans', but it doesn't go far enough.

Kate Aronoff

When Prisons Are Toxic to Both Humanity and the Environment

Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet.

John Washington

The Case Against Using the GDP as a Measure of Economic Health

The GDP has always been a bitterly contested yardstick, explains Ehsan Masood in a new history.

Chris Lehmann

America First, Planet be Damned: Trump Calls for Orgy of Extraction in North Dakota Energy Speech

John Collins

Big Oil Plots to Exclude Public from Public Land Auctions

Steve Horn