Truthout
Environment & Health
Our Universities’ Investments in Fossil Fuels Are Unethical — and Illegal
Our schools are complicit in the climate crisis. They must divest.
Top Climate Publisher Has Played Major Role in Supporting Fossil Fuel Industry
Elsevier, a Dutch company behind many peer-reviewed journals, works with industry to help increase oil and gas drilling.
Big Oil and Conservatives Are Using Russia’s Conflict to Call for More Drilling
It took big oil cronies less than 24 hours after Russia invaded Ukraine to call for more drilling.
Critics Blast Biden Rebrand of Trump’s Medicare Privatization Scheme
The program constitutes a “backdoor privatization of Medicare,” said one progressive advocate.
USPS Defies Biden’s Plea to Electrify Fleet, Finalizing Gas-Powered Truck Plan
The new USPS fleet would be 90 percent gas-powered, locking in emissions for decades.
As Winter Storms Descend, De-Icing Chemicals Are Threatening Freshwater Lakes
Road salt runoff is putting U.S. water supplies at risk.
Inside Forest Defenders’ Blockade of Atlanta’s “Cop City” Training Compound
Activists have dug in against the militarized compound to defend Atlanta's most marginalized and largest watershed.
Mask Mandates Lift While Uncertainty About New Subvariant BA.2 Hangs in the Air
For millions of immunocompromised people, this national shrug is as infuriating as it is potentially lethal.
Paul Farmer Leaves Behind the Legacy of a Global Public Health Movement
Farmer built community health networks to support people in Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and beyond.
Students Say Yale, Stanford and MIT’s Fossil Fuel Investments Are Illegal
Novel legal strategy argues that top schools including Princeton are legally obliged to put the public interest first.