Climate and Environmental Crisis

Pipeline activists to be sentenced

Three environmental activists will be sentenced by a Michigan judge March 5 after their Jan. 31 felony convictions for protesting…

February 27, 2014

Drilling industry tramps on anti-fracking activist’s rights

Northeast Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale is ground zero for the impact of hydraulic fracturing — fracking — on rural communities. The process involves injecting…

February 4, 2014

Shale oil train derails in Philly

Philadelphia — On Jan. 20, seven cars of a mile-long freight train operated by CSX Corporation and carrying Bakken Shale…

February 1, 2014

Environmental racism grows in North Carolina

Although African-American communities in North Carolina are already more than twice as likely as others to be burdened with landfills…

February 1, 2014

Water still unsafe after Elk River chemical spill

Charleston, W.Va., Jan. 19 — A chemical spill into the nearby Elk River has caused hundreds of local residents to…

January 20, 2014

Native & environmental activists take on GE & Big Oil

The tar sands of Alberta, Canada, are the dirtiest, most polluting oil source in North America and require very specialized,…

January 18, 2014

West Virginia coal industry poisons water supply

Charleston, W.Va. — A spill into the Elk River near Charleston, W.V., on Jan. 9 from a chemical plant owned…

January 14, 2014

Workers, supporters fight GE’s toxic effects on community

Fort Edward, N.Y. -- Nearly 200 miles of the Hudson River is a toxic waste site. Once, the fish in…

December 14, 2013

Corporations behind global warming

Over the course of international climate change conferences since the Kyoto Accords were established in 1997, a pivotal debate has…

December 12, 2013

U.N. climate conference fails to agree to reduce pollution

More than 190 countries attended the 19th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, this one in Warsaw, Poland, which…

December 2, 2013