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Covering Climate Now
Truthout is proud to join with more than 200 other news outlets for Covering Climate Now, a project geared toward deepening media coverage of the climate crisis.
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Series Introduction
The planet is at a precipice, yet much of the media persists in ignoring the urgency of the moment. It’s time to reverse that lethal trend. Therefore, Truthout is proud to join with more than 200 other news outlets for Covering Climate Now, a project geared toward deepening media coverage of the climate crisis. Together, we will double down on climate journalism, making this staggeringly important issue an even greater focus of our reporting and analysis. Spearheaded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation in partnership with publications around the world, Covering Climate Now will reach hundreds of millions of people. At Truthout, we have an intrepid slate of original coverage planned, including both investigative reporting and insightful commentary from leading thinkers. We will also be sharing some of the best climate coverage published by other outlets that are part of the collaboration. We invite you to join us for this vital media organizing effort to shine a spotlight on the central issue of our time.
![A Baytown resident wears a sticker that reads Exxon is not a good neighbor as residents spoke during formal public comments about the Exxon Mobil Corporations Baytown Olefins Plant on February 5, 2024, in Baytown, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1993004569-400x300.jpg)
Big Oil Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Block Lawsuits Demanding Accountability
Fossil fuel corporations are teaming up with far right activists to hide their climate deception and block lawsuits.
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Lawmakers Refer Fossil Fuel Industry Climate Deception Investigation to the DOJ
Lawmakers have been calling for a Justice Department probe into Big Oil for nearly a decade.
![Floodwaters cover an access road to oil refineries on September 25, 2005, in Port Arthur, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0402-refinery-400x300.jpg)
How Industry Coordinated to Deny Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
As climate lawsuits mount, at least one major oil company anticipated legal action decades ago.
![Water flows out of a drainage pipe. Beyond the fall of water, houses and dry land.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/water-brokers-water-pipe-reno4-400x300.jpg)
This Little-Known Company Is Making Millions Off the Western Water Shortage
Vidler finds untapped water in rural communities and markets it to developers and corporations in fast-growing cities.
![Striking sanitation workers outside the Hotel Claridge in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, April 6, 1968.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-96407610-1-400x300.jpg)
The Civil Rights Movement Fought for Environmental Justice Long Before Earth Day
Black and Brown communities have always been on the front lines of the struggle against pollution.
![Steven Donziger is seen at a "Free Donziger" rally held in front of the Manhattan Court House as Donziger faces sentencing in contempt case in New York City on October 1, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-1235627384-400x300.jpg)
Ecocide — Not Eco-Activism — Is a Crime Against Humanity, Says Steven Donziger
Truthout interviews Donziger as he awaits a Supreme Court decision over whether to take up the final appeal in his case.
![People fish in front of defunct oil drilling rigs in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel at Aransas Pass in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 11, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-1130718680-400x300.jpg)
Tax Break for Big Polluters Is Also Starving Public Schools in Texas
In December, legislators killed a controversial tax program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.
![Lauren Petrie, of Food & Water Watch, holds up a photo of a fracking site near a playground and wears a mask to show opposition to Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) board members during a public comment session on October 30, 2017 in Denver, Colorado.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-868323110-400x300.jpg)
Colorado Law Could Force Boulder to Sell Oil and Gas to a Private Company
State regulators could order Boulder County to sell its gas rights without the consent of voters or property owners.
![Two bottles labeled "DIMOCK, PA" and filled with brown and green liquid sit on a table](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/2022_1221-dimock-pa-400x300.jpg)
Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone After Plea Deal
The new consent order represents a jarring about-face for residents savoring a long-sought resolution to their plight.
![Two wind turbines rise out of the fog cover in Uttenweiler, Germany on the morning of November 27, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-1245141044-400x300.jpg)
Renewable Energy to Become World’s Top Electricity Source by 2025, Report Says
A new report notes the war in Ukraine has spurred governments to speed up development of renewable energy sources.