Activism

Q&A: The Activist Investor Who Shook Up the Board at ExxonMobil, on How—or if—it Changed the Company

“If you've got a $30 billion project that is dependent on a certain level of demand for decades to come, you’re gonna fight like hell to make sure that demand is still there,” Charlie Penner said.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A Climate Progressive Leads a Crowded Democratic Field for Pittsburgh’s 12th Congressional District Seat

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast ‘Borrow Pits’ Mined for Sand and Clay

By Agya K. Aning

Environmental Groups Are United In California Rooftop Solar Fight, with One Notable Exception

By Dan Gearino, Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Biden Could Score a Climate Victory in a Single Word: Plastics

By James Bruggers

Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World’s ‘Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate’

By Katie Surma

Researchers Say Science Skewed by Racism is Increasing the Threat of Global Warming to People of Color

By Bob Berwyn

Activists Take Aim at an Expressway Project in Karachi, Saying it Will Only Heighten Climate Threats

By Zoha Tunio

Activists Urge the International Energy Agency to Remove Paywalls Around its Data

By Andrew Marquardt and Jeannie Kopstein

Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions

By Phil McKenna

Activists Target Public Relations Groups For Greenwashing Fossil Fuels

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York, The Financial Times

Inspired by King’s Words, Experts Say the Fight for Climate Justice Anywhere is a Fight for Climate Justice Everywhere

By James Bruggers

Warming Trends: Americans’ Alarm Grows About Climate Change, a Plant-Based Diet Packs a Double Carbon Whammy, and Making Hay from Plastic India

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River

By Katie Surma

Amid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda

By Kristoffer Tigue, Ariel Gans

Why the Luster on Once-Vaunted ‘Smart Cities’ Is Fading

By Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360

An Energy Transition Needs Lots of Power Lines. This 1970s Minnesota Farmers’ Uprising Tried to Block One. What Can it Teach Us?

By Dan Gearino

An African American Community in Florida Blocked Two Proposed Solar Farms. Then the Florida Legislature Stepped In.

By Aman Azhar

In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say

By Elena Shao