Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports
New studies sharpen warnings for unlivable heat in the tropics, and nearly unthinkable extremes in major Northern Hemisphere cities.
By Bob Berwyn
Justice
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Citing an ‘Imminent’ Health Threat, the EPA Orders Temporary Shut Down of St. Croix Oil Refinery
By Kristoffer Tigue
A U.S. Virgin Islands Oil Refinery Had Yet Another Accident. Residents Are Demanding Answers
By Kristoffer Tigue
A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Expansion of I-45 in Downtown Houston Is on Hold, for Now, in a Traffic-Choked, Divided Region
By Aman Azhar
The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes
By Judy Fahys
EPA to Send Investigators to Probe ‘Distressing’ Incidents at the Limetree Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands
By Kristoffer Tigue
A New Program Like FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change and Transition to Renewable Energy
By Judy Fahys
The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?
By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue
Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township
By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
Will a Recent Emergency Methane Release Be the Third Strike for Weymouth’s New Natural Gas Compressor?
By Phil McKenna
The EPA Is Asking a Virgin Islands Refinery for Information on its Spattering of Neighbors With Oil
By Kristoffer Tigue
The First Native American Cabinet Secretary Visits the Land of Her Ancestors and Sees Firsthand the Obstacles to Compromise
By Judy Fahys
As the Climate Crisis Grows, a Movement Gathers to Make ‘Ecocide’ an International Crime Against the Environment
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma, Yuliya Talmazan
Ecocide: Should Destruction of the Planet Be a Crime?
By David Sassoon
After Hurricane Harvey, a Heated Debate Over Flood Control Funds in Texas’ Harris County
By Aman Azhar
When an Oil Company Profits From a Pipeline Running Beneath Tribal Land Without Consent, What’s Fair Compensation?
By Judy Fahys
The Biden EPA Withdraws a Key Permit for an Oil Refinery on St. Croix, Citing ‘Environmental Justice’ Concerns
By Kristoffer Tigue
