Climate Crisis

The left can win with a bold visionary policy that links climate mitigation to economic transformation.

Congress should be leading us toward fossil-free energy instead of subsidizing the industry up to $20 billion per year.

Environmentalists say the fracking boom in the Permian Basin is a ticking "climate bomb."

Leases for more oil drilling are flying to anyone who can write the U.S. government a big enough check.

Enbridge is eyeing ways to streamline and expand the delivery of Canadian tar sands to the Gulf Coast for export.

We can decide that we won’t live and die on these terms.

COP26 ended with an agreement too weak to meaningfully reduce emissions and limit global heating, critics say.

Activists staged a walkout in response to late decisions made by negotiators to severely weaken commitments.

The scientists point to a "rapidly shrinking" carbon budget to limit warming over the century to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

"Equity has to be a key part of our responses" to the climate crisis, says climate scientist Kevin Anderson.