Climate

Want to Know How We Can Win a Just Transition? States Hold a Key.

What's next for the worker-led movement to curb climate change.

Mindy Isser

We’re About to Pass Up a Generational Opportunity to Stem the Climate Crisis

The Build Back Better program isn’t just inadequate on climate—it may be a disaster. Here’s what movements are demanding next.

Basav Sen

Democratic Leaders Are Finger-Wagging Over the IPCC Report. They Should Look To Themselves.

If Democrats really heeded the warning of the IPCC report, they'd end the fossil fuel industry.

Sarah Lazare

Biden's Climate Pledges Are Incompatible with His Belligerence Toward China

Bipartisan saber rattling and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most.

Lorah Steichen

Biden Says He Backs a Just Transition for the Climate Crisis. Advocates Say, “Prove It.”

While the administration has taken some early steps to provide support for energy workers and frontline communities in the transition away from fossil fuels, experts and activists say the crisis demands a more transformative approach.

Rachel M. Cohen

The Perils of an “America First” Climate Policy

To meet his climate promises, Biden will have to abandon the U.S. tradition of hawkish nationalism in favor of global cooperation.

Kate Aronoff

When Climate Disaster and Mass Incarceration Collide

Failed responses to environmental disasters in jails are gambling with detainees’ lives.

Daniela Ochoa-Bravo