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Fossil Fuel Spill Tracker 2015: A Map of Environmental Disasters
An explosion in North American fossil fuel extraction has led to a dangerous rise in pipeline spills and oil train derailments.
Forty-Three Years After Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court to Hear Case Threatening Women’s Right to Choose
Friday marked the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Massive Leaks Are an Everyday Occurrence in Gas Fields
California's Aliso Canyon is a reminder that methane emissions are widespread, poorly regulated - and ongoing.
Afghanistan Waste Exhibit A: Kajaki Dam, More Than $300 Million Spent and Still Not Done
A Senate subcommittee is looking at waste by a Pentagon task force.
Activists Deliver Climate Plan for Just Transition to EPA Offices Nationwide
The Our Power Plan is intended as a blueprint to address the needs of frontline communities.
Fracking Industry-Linked Earthquakes in Oklahoma Crack Political Party Lines
A grassroots group has called on legislators to pass a temporary moratorium on injection wells.
Humanity Has Entered a New and Scary Geological Era
We'll go extinct if we keep doing what's easy and what's comfortable.
Untouchable Big Oil Threatens All Life on Earth
The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more.
How to Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry From Wrecking Our World
Unless we ensure that the future is powered by alternative energy, we will find ourselves in the midst of a climate-change version of a zombie apocalypse.
Our Toxic Failure
Is it really so radical to ask that companies test chemicals for safety before using them?