Environment

Environmental reporter Dan Fagin joins Democracy Now! to discuss his book that tells the story of how a small New Jersey town fought back against industrial pollution and astronomical …

It has been 44 years since the first Earth Day protests when 20 million Americans demonstrated for a cleaner environment, setting the groundwork for what was to become the …

The lastest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report includes a chapter on mitigation strategies that are problematic at best.

The question of who owns Alaska's natural gas and where they're from, at least for now, has been off the table.

A living wage must mean a minimum wage that rises to meet the higher living standards of each new generation to be a living threshold, not a dead hand …

We must admit that climate change is an unavoidable outcome of an unsustainable political-economy, and techno-fixes will not save us.

In an Earth Day special, Amy Goodman looks at the history of the global environmental movement as told in the sweeping new documentary, "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle …

Elizabeth Birnbaum, who was director of the Minerals Management Service in the Interior Department at the time of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, warns the risk of another offshore oil …

For fisherfolk and coastal residents living in the impact zone of BP's 2010 oil spill, the disaster has never ended.

The EPA ruled that BP could start bidding on lucrative new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.