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'Business as Usual Is a Death Sentence': Hundreds Sit In at DNC Headquarters to Demand 2020 Debate on Climate Crisis

Amid Demand for Climate Focus, Burning Everglades Offer Fiery Backdrop to First Democratic Primary Debate

Jon Queally, staff writer

"Because subtlety is dead."

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To Prevent 'Climate Apartheid Scenario' Where Rich Escape and Poor Suffer, UN Report Issues Urgent Call for Global Economic Justice

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"While people in poverty are responsible for just a fraction of global...

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'A True Public Health Emergency': 70+ Medical Groups Sound Alarm on Climate Crisis

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Sign reads: We need better climate action now.

Groups lay out action agenda to advance climate solutions and strengthen...

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Billionaires to 2020 Presidential Hopefuls: 'America Has a Moral, Ethical, and Economic Responsibility to Tax Our Wealth More'

The Exxon Mobil Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, seen from the top of the Louisiana State Capitol, March 5, 2017.

In Far-Reaching Plan, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Proposes Radical Changes to Fossil Fuel Industry

Coordinated by Extinction Rebellion NYC, 70 people or more were reported arrested after the group staged a sit-in on Eight Avenue in midtown Manhattan in order to bring attention to the failure of the paper—and that of the journalism industry overall—to adequately report on the global urgency of skyrocketing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, rapidly warming oceans, and all the associated perils that result.

'Report the Urgency! This Is a Climate Emergency!': 70 Arrested Outside New York Times Demanding Paper Treat Climate Like the Crisis It Is

'Fund Climate Solutions, Not Endless War': 22 Arrested Demanding US Build Windmills, Not Warships

Activists run towards the Garzweiler open-cast mine. The protests for more climate protection in the Rhineland continue. (Photo: David Young/picture alliance via Getty Images)

'We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!': Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down German Coal Mine

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Friday ordered state police to find state Senate Republicans who fled the capital Thursday.

After Oregon Republicans Scurry Off to Avoid Voting on Climate Bill, Governor Sends State Police to Bring Them Back

Video captured the explosion that took place at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia early Friday morning.

What the 'Fossil Fuel Economy Looks Like': Demands for Climate Justice After Explosion Rocks Philly Oil Refinery

Activists with Ende Gelände march to stage a blockade of the German Garzweiler surface mine on June 21, 2019.

Because 'Another World Is Possible,' Tens of Thousands of Activists Stage Climate Mobilizations in Germany

'Our Climate Is Breaking Down. Business As Usual Is Over': Campaigners Interrupt Televised Speech of UK Treasury Official

'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate

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Chorus of Outrage as Trump Admin. Throws Climate, Public Health Under Bus by Killing Obama-Era Clean Power Plan

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'This Pipeline Will Not Be Built,' Indigenous and Climate Leaders Tell Trudeau After Canada Approves Trans Mountain Expansion

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We Must Do Better: Winning With Love and A Non-Endorsement

The ghastly MAGA guy just kicked off his re-election push in Orlando with lies, Nazis, old white people, more lies and chants of "Lock Her Up!" because OMG these folks are some stupid. Happily, he was met with a Win With Love protest flying his "gaseous orange twin," dismal polling - all six Democratic frontrunners beat him - his own undocumented workers calling him out, and a blistering editorial from the long-GOP Orlando Sentinel urging America to please vote for anyone but Trump, because duh.

Progressive Newswire

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Study: Renewable Electricity Standard Bill is Affordable and Would Slash Power Sector Carbon by Nearly Half

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Climate Change at the Intersection of Economic Development and Labor

Indigenous Environment Network

IEN Responds to Governor Inslee’s Freedom from Fossil Fuels Plan

Center for Biological Diversity

75 Groups Call for Reforms to Climate-killing Export-Import Bank

350 Action

350 Action Responds to Jay Inslee’s “Freedom From Fossil Fuels” Plan

Food & Water Watch

Gov. Inslee Would Ban Fracking–So Might Nine Other Presidential Candidates, and Counting

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Karthik Ganapathy

Florida Is Burning. The Midwest Is Flooding. Why Aren't Democrats Debating Climate?

Mrill Ingram

The Growing Case to Ban Fracking

Margaret Klein Salamon

Facing the Climate Emergency: Grieving The Future You Thought You Had

John R. Platt

The Extinction Deniers Are Here

Eva Joly

There Is No Green Revolution Without Tax Justice

Michelle Chen

'Hardhats vs. Hippies': How the Media Misrepresents the Debate Over the Green New Deal

Ralph Nader

Congressional Interns and Congress Redirections—A Meeting

Tia Schwab

The Scary New Math of Factory Farm Waste

Douglas Schuler

We Are Destroying The One Thing That Could Save Us: Civic Intelligence

Pia Gallegos

DNC Chair Tom Perez Tries to Justify Failure to Prioritize Climate Crisis

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