Climate and Environmental Crisis

N.C. environmental injustice: ’We’re living with a ticking time bomb’

The following interview with Naeema Muhammad, interim director of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, was conducted by Durham, N.C.,…

September 9, 2014

‘Drill, baby, drill’? Not so fast!

Michigan is not exactly a state that an oil and gas industry executive would call “unwelcoming.” In fact, there is…

September 7, 2014

The Pentagon — the climate elephant

There is an elephant in the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even acknowledged. This agreement…

September 4, 2014

From Pennsylvania to Ukraine and Bulgaria: The toxic aftermaths of fracking

Many people are already deeply concerned about the sinister damage to the environment done by hydraulic fracturing, better known as…

August 18, 2014

Lac-Mégantic blast victims remembered

Three hundred people gathered July 6 at the Ezra Prentice Basketball Court in South Albany, N.Y., a poor, predominantly Black…

July 13, 2014

Oil trains seen as ‘mile-long bombs’

A runaway train carrying Bakken formation crude oil derailed last year on July 6. The resulting explosion killed 47 people…

July 13, 2014

How climate change impacts people in the U.S.

Last year in March, a huge percentage of people in this country ranked five other topics more dangerous than climate…

May 23, 2014

IPCC: ‘Climate change endangers life on planet’

Big business: ‘Profits come first’ The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a dire report based on the…

April 14, 2014

Washington State: Were the mudslide deaths inevitable?

Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy brought devastation that was not solely from natural causes, as was reported at the time in…

April 3, 2014