Climate and Environmental Crisis

Yet another profit-driven accident as oil train derails, explodes in West Virginia

Huntington, W.Va. -- A 109-car CSX train derailed along the Fayette-Kanawha county line 33 miles southeast of Charleston, W.Va., on…

February 20, 2015

Second near-disaster as shale oil train derails

Philadelphia -- For the second time in just over a year, a train carrying Bakken Shale crude oil derailed in…

February 4, 2015

Rosebud Sioux say House Vote for Keystone XL is ‘act of war’

Workers World reprints this Nov. 14 article by Wica Agli, of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, published by the Earth First!…

November 21, 2014

‘Flood Wall Street!’

Mobilizing via the hashtag #FloodWallStreet, thousands of anti-capitalist protesters confronted the profiteers responsible for climate change by sitting down outside…

September 24, 2014

Peoples Climate March protesters say: ‘We know who is responsible’

Activists in over 2,808 cities in 166 countries participated on Sept. 21 in the first international Peoples Climate March. The events took…

September 23, 2014

NorCal People’s Climate rally

More than a thousand people gathered at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Sept. 21 for the Northern California People’s Climate…

September 23, 2014

Seattle protesters challenge polluters

Two thousand people marched in Seattle after a big downtown rally on Sept. 21.  Protesting coal ports and oil trains,…

September 23, 2014

Planet’s warming caused by capitalism

Over the last few years numerous scientific studies have reported that the pace of global climate change is accelerating and,…

September 20, 2014

Against climate change? Fight for system change!

The largest demonstration against climate change ever will take place in New York City on Sunday, Sept. 21. This important…

September 18, 2014

Banks cause Detroit water crisis

The city of Detroit, under a right-wing, state-appointed “emergency manager” who has plunged the city into the largest municipal bankruptcy…

September 18, 2014