Climate and Environmental Crisis

Global warming, nuclear power and China, Part 1

In a surprise move, China and Britain’s Conservative Party government have signed an agreement in which China will participate in…

October 26, 2015

Environmental justice summit links racism, environmental destruction

Whitakers, N.C. -- The 17th annual summit of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, held Oct. 16-17, brought together communities from…

October 20, 2015

NCEJN issues position on climate change for summit meeting

The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network issued the following statement in anticipation of its Summit meeting in Whitakers, N.C., on…

October 15, 2015

Shell cancels Arctic drilling, for now

Royal Dutch Shell Oil announced on Sept. 28 that it is shutting down — for now — its drilling operations…

October 11, 2015

Western wildfires spawned by capitalism

Sept. 20 -- Five people have been killed by ferocious wildfires sweeping through California, including a disabled woman burned to…

September 22, 2015

Native activists demand shutdown of Enbridge oil pipeline

Straits of Mackinac Michigan Organizers from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians were among Native-American and environmental activists…

September 15, 2015

Obama’s Alaska trip motivated by Big Oil and war threats

With great fanfare, while making an unprecedented presidential trip to Alaska on Aug. 31, President Barack Obama “renamed” the tallest…

September 3, 2015

Katrina + 10: Natural disaster or forced removals?

It has been a decade since the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were dislocated due to the…

September 2, 2015

EPA spill threatens Diné community

Corn, melons, squashes and other crops, along with sheep and cattle -- these are what the Diné (Navajo) farmers grow…

August 17, 2015

The really big one: Natural disasters or capitalism?

In its July 20 issue, the New Yorker magazine published an article headlined “The Really Big One.” It dealt with…

August 10, 2015