Human-caused climate change gets personal
What felt distant has become much closer. What could be safely put off can no longer be shoved aside.
Broad coalition wins Oakland ban on coal
The City Council voted to ban a coal train that would wind through Oakland neighborhoods, creating a health and safety hazard.
Company halts bee-killing chemicals as activists stir up a hornet’s nest
The movement to save the bees recently got a shot - or perhaps a sting - in the arm.
At People's Climate Summit: Just transitions and environment
The community development organization members believe that an alternative, clean energy economy can be achieved by empowering the underprivileged and unemployed.
Green news roundup: Keystone XL, Arctic oil drilling get X'ed out
October and November have ushered in victories for environmentalists. Corporations have been soundly defeated or exposed on many fronts.
Activists redecorate LNG pipeline office with clean water signs
Fossil fuel and pipeline corporations are trying to sell their plans to export fracked gas through communities, forests, and rivers.
Navy jets, electronic warfare stir outrage
The noise and electronic radiation pose a dire threat to animals and plants in the wilderness regions of the Olympic Peninsula.
Coal industry win is temporary, fate of plants still in air
A divided Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
Kayaktivists in Seattle blockade Shell’s Alaska-bound oil rig
"Shell wants to haul its Arctic destroyer to Alaska as soon as possible, but these courageous individuals are saying, 'Shell No.' "
Kayakers paddling in Seattle Port chant, “Shell No”
"Climate Justice NOW," they roared at the oil rig, which loomed like a yellow Darth Vader along the mouth of the Duwamish River.
