Pollution
-
Amazon to Pay $20.5 Million in Settlement of Class Action Suit Over Pollution in Eastern Oregon
While the tech giant denies its data centers worsen nitrate contamination in Morrow County groundwater, its money will fund construction of private wells and public water-treatment projects
- Update
- By
-
Trump Started the Year With Two Big Blows to Climate Progress
The administration will reportedly stop considering how many lives are saved by pollution regulations
- Burning Up
- By
-
‘Defending Paradise’: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes on Big Oil in California
‘The single largest threat to California’s coast’ may be an Exxon-backed oil company set to restart a pipeline that caused a massive 2015 spill.
- ‘Grow A Set’
- By
-
Trump’s EPA Is Gaslighting America in the Face of Climate Disasters
The Trump EPA wants to reverse the “endangerment finding” that’s allowed the government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
- Commentary
- By
-
Every Dirty Gift Trump’s Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has billions for oil and gas companies: tax breaks, deductions, and pay-to-play environmental deregulation
- Masters Bidding
- By
-
They’re Fighting Polluters. Trump’s Tax Bill Guts Their Funding
Across Louisiana, communities are bracing for the tax bill’s massive cuts to critical funding for local community organizing and resilience
- On the Ground
- By
-
Trump Eviscerates a Bedrock Public Health and Environmental Protection Law
In one fell swoop, the National Environmental Policy Act was effectively neutered by Trump, but in this small Newark neighborhood, the fight goes on
- Bedrock Bullshit
- By
-
Will Biden Pardon This Human Rights Lawyer Who Beat Big Oil in Court?
Donziger was subsequently prosecuted by Chevron’s law firm in a case that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said “broke a basic constitutional promise”
- ‘Correct This Wrong’
- By
-
A Reformed Fracker Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Toxic Lies
An excerpt from ‘Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It’ tells the story of a bank robber-turned-fracker who became a whistleblower
- Book Excerpt
- By
-
A Fire in the River: Big Sugar and 'Black Snow' in the Everglades
For more than a century, the sugar harvest has shaped the lives of people in the Everglades and transformed the region — and put the most vulnerable at risk
- Florida's Sweet Tooth
- By