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May 30, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
You’d Be Amazed How Many People Want Big Oil Charged With Homicide
A new poll shows overwhelming support for holding oil and gas companies accountable via the courts.
May 29, 2024
Liza Featherstone
AIPAC’s Disgraceful War on Jamaal Bowman
The congressman from New York has been a remarkably effective champion for climate policy. Now, because he’s critical of Israel, AIPAC and local Democrats are supporting his opponent.
May 22, 2024
Kate Aronoff
Is Big Oil Putting Microplastic in Your Testicles?
And if they are—should someone do something about that?
May 21, 2024
Aaron Regunberg
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Donald Braman
A Big Tool to Fight Climate Change Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Civil forfeiture is usually used against people suspected of drug offenses. Instead, we could be using it to make Big Oil pay for its role causing mass death.
May 20, 2024
Kate Aronoff
A 100 Percent Tariff on Chinese Cars Is a Bad Idea. Here’s a Good One.
Collaboration with Chinese firms may sound counterintuitive. But U.S. automakers are already doing it.
May 17, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
American Farms Have a Drug Problem
The meat industry is pumping livestock full of antibiotics, exacerbating drug resistance in humans.
May 15, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law
The Florida governor has taken his fanatical war on the climate to the next level.
May 15, 2024
Kate Aronoff
Criticizing China for “Dumping” Cheap E.V.s Is a Bit Rich
Biden is accusing China of doing exactly what the U.S. oil industry did.
May 14, 2024
Liza Featherstone
Artificial Turf Is Tearing Towns Apart
The PFAS in playing fields—and the open question of what they might do to kids—is turning into a culture war.
May 11, 2024
Kate Aronoff
Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope?
Lots of people want to see more “hope” and less “doom” about climate change. But a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it’s more complicated than that.
May 10, 2024
Timothy Noah
Donald Trump Is Short on Cash—and Selling Laws to Anyone Who Will Pay
Donald Trump is telling oil and gas executives they can rewrite entire laws if they help him return to the White House.
May 10, 2024
Melody Schreiber
Big Ag, Not Wild Birds, Is What Really Spreads Avian Flu
While wild animals can spread the virus, industrial farms are where it really thrives—and likely originated.
May 10, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
The Really Grim Part About Gas Stoves
Lower-income people living in smaller spaces are especially affected by the toxic gases these ranges leak.
May 8, 2024
Kate Aronoff
The Sierra Club and Its Union Are Trading Accusations
A new unfair labor practice charge alleges that the environmental group plans to lay off half of the union’s bargaining committee, including an employee who is pregnant.
May 7, 2024
Kate Aronoff
The Truth Behind the Latest Oil Price-Fixing Scandal
The FTC has accused Scott Sheffield of colluding with OPEC. But this entire industry was built on price fixing in one form or another. Trying to make it competitive misses the point.
May 4, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
Companies Legally Use Poison to Make Your Decaf Coffee
And they are fighting every effort to ban it.
May 3, 2024
Kate Aronoff
The Plastic Industry’s Latest Delay Tactic: “Plastic Offsets”
It’s modeled on carbon offsets. It has a lot of the same problems.
May 2, 2024
Lydia Millet
If Corporations Are People, Then Animals Should Be Too
Enshrining the rights of nonhuman entities in law would help us protect them before it’s too late.
April 30, 2024
Kate Aronoff
This Bipartisan Bill Could Give Trump Huge Power Against His Enemies
The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill empowering the executive branch to strip organizations of their nonprofit status with little due process. The Senate is now considering its own version.
April 29, 2024
Liza Featherstone
We Don’t Charge People for Air. We Shouldn’t Charge for Water, Either.
A new bill from Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seeks to ban the trade of water futures. Let's go one step further.
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