Climate and Environmental Crisis

Will big companies make billions off a warmer Arctic?

Anchorage, Alaska -- Summer temperatures in Alaska have increased by 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 30 years, while median…

March 17, 2015

Stop crude oil ‘bomb trains’

March 7 — In the past three days, two trains carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in North America, one…

March 12, 2015

Keystone XL and Climate Change: Game Over for Capitalism

Until his veto of the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline on Feb. 24, President Barack Obama had kept the entire world…

March 9, 2015

What’s behind Christie’s sweetheart deal with ExxonMobil?

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to settle an $8.9 billion environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil for just $250…

March 9, 2015

Women fight oppression in Bangladesh

As I walked through the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, I became aware of so much suffering, especially for women.…

March 6, 2015

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