Truthout
Planet or Profit
Investigating systemic threats to the ecosystem from transglobal corporate profit-seeking.
Dahr Jamail | Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event Begins; 2015 on Pace to Become Hottest Year on Record
Humans are both the cause and at risk of annihilation in the Earth's sixth mass extinction event.
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Supreme Court Ties EPA’s Hands, Forbidding Emissions Rules
The fossil fuel industry and the court ignore the true costs of emissions from power plants.
Dahr Jamail | Oil Trains Don’t Have to Derail or Explode to Be Hazardous, Doctors Warn
Doctors warn of major health dangers posed by US oil trains - even when they don't derail and explode.
Exhausting Legal Options, Residents of Texas Town Take Direct Action to Enforce Fracking Ban
Denton, Texas, residents are using nonviolent direct action to stop fracking operations after the state rendered the city's ban unenforceable.
US Interior Department Compelled to Reveal Extent of Fracking in Gulf of Mexico
The extent of Gulf fracking is currently unknown and environmentalists say it poses a serious threat to coastal communities and marine life.
Dahr Jamail | “Imminent” Collapse of the Antarctic Ice Shelf and a “New Era” in the Arctic
As human-caused climate disruption progresses, sea level rise is happening far faster than previously expected.
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In the Belly of the Chemical Beast: Hawaiian Activists Confront Syngenta on Its Home Turf
Hawaiian activists traveled to Syngenta's headquarters in Switzerland to demand that the agrichemical giant stop spraying poisons on their island.
Republicans Aim to Preempt Local Democracy, Target Fracking Bans
Texas Republicans approved a bill blocking Denton's fracking ban and gutting cities' ability to regulate the industry.
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Dahr Jamail | Experts Warn of “Cataclysmic” Changes as Planetary Temperatures Rise
We are at the very beginning of a period of “abrupt” climate disruption.
Dahr Jamail | Gulf Victims Suing BP Disaster’s Compensation Czar
Kenneth Feinberg is being sued for allegedly misleading claimants in order to limit BP's financial liability.