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Senate GOP Legislation “Is Just Open Season on Public Lands,” Critics Warn
It’s being called a giveaway to corporate interests and the rich disguised as an effort to alleviate the housing crisis.
New Study Says Oceans Are Acidifying Beyond Planetary Thresholds
Scientists wrote that “the average global ocean conditions had already crossed into the uncertainty range.”
Trump’s Budget Bill Is Going to Spike Energy Costs for Households Across the US
Congress is poised to increase energy bills by hundreds of dollars in order to block renewable energy projects.
Gulf Coast Communities Take on Insurers Backing Trump-Approved Fossil Fuels
Organizers in Louisiana are fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to expand methane export infrastructure.
Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers
“People don’t have the jobs here, but people do have cancer,” one Louisiana-based organizer told Truthout.
I’m Facing Prison for My Climate Activism. Here’s Why.
I'd planned to block the taxiway at Manchester Airport by glueing my hands to the tarmac.
First Nations Worry Canada’s Push to Be an “Energy Superpower” Will Harm Them
Canada’s new prime minister is pushing to accelerate energy projects in a bid to decrease dependence on the US.
11 States Are Eyeing Laws to Make Fossil Fuel Industry Pay for Climate Crisis
States are facing enormous costs in the wake of floods, wildfires, and other disasters worsened by climate change.
Trump’s Order to Expand Logging Threatens to Increase Climate-Fueled Wildfires
The president’s push to expand timber and fossil fuel production “is a double whammy on the climate.”
Trump’s Race for Green Energy Resources Isn’t About Climate — It’s About Greed
The Apache have been fighting a legal battle over the future of Oak Flat, which has been targeted for mining.