Environment

Activists courted arrest in Harrisburg, Illinois, to stop Peabody Energy from continuing logging operations related to strip mine expansion.

In Pennsylvania, opponents of gas drilling say regulators are slow and unprepared in responding to air quality complaints.

Not only are the effects of climate change already occurring on every continent, the world is ill-prepared for what is to come.

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We're now on a drill, baby, drill and frack, baby, frack planet, where the prevailing state of mind is what Michael Klare calls “carbon delirium.”

Children aren't playing in the garden anymore; instead they're filling in bubbles on worksheets.

Noam Chomsky: The US government's regular, easy acceptance of threats to survival is almost too extraordinary to capture in words.

Our public officials, elected representatives and business leaders could all be guilty of crimes against humanity.

The scams just keep on coming. But as they say in the trade, grifters gotta grift.