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Climate

On 30th Anniversary of Famous Climate Testimony, James Hansen Called 'The Paul Revere We Desperately Needed'

Dr. James Hansen is arrested on Sept. 27, 2010 during a protest calling for the abolition of mountaintop mining. (Photo: Rainforest Action Network/flickr/cc)

'Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children!': Poor People's Campaign Caps Off 40 Days of Action

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Poor Peoples Campaign

'We will keep coming back until everyone has housing, voting rights, clean water, peace, and justice!" says Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

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'We Don't Know... How Bad It Is': 31-Car Oil Train Derails Into Iowa Floodwaters

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

#legos

Amid worries of drinking water contamination, tankers looked as if they had...

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Affirming Belief That Waters Are for Drilling and Pillaging, Trump Erases Ocean Protection Policy

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Green sea turtle

New executive order revokes Obama-era policy put in place following Deepwater...

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light rail

The Koch Brothers Are Bankrolling Local Efforts to Kill American Public Transit

Dr. James Hansen

Calling for Global Carbon Tax, James Hansen Says We're Failing 'Miserably' at Tackling Climate Crisis

Study Shows 300,000 US Homes at Risk, $1 Trillion Price Tag as Rising Seas Trigger Chronic Flooding

Protesters at a rally in Vancouver to show opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline on September 9th, 2017. (Photo: William Chen/flickr/cc)

Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It.

ceremony

'Historic First': Nebraska Farmers Return Land to Ponca Tribe in Effort to Block Keystone XL

bye, ice

'Utterly Terrifying': Study Affirms Feedback Loop Fears as Antarctica Ice Loss Tripled in Last 5 Years

Warren Sanders Puerto Rico

Warren, Sanders Rip FEMA for Failing to Provide Accurate Count of Hurricane Deaths in Puerto Rico

'This Is What Winning Looks Like': DNC Bans Donations From Fossil Fuel Companies

Putting Solar Panels in Pipeline's Path, Campaign to Combine Power of Sun 'With Power of the People'

Puerto Rican Day Parade Calls Attention to Plight of Hurricane Victims and Demands End to Deadly Austerity

'Anyone Surprised?' Kinder Morgan Pipeline Leak Two Days Before Trudeau Buyout Was 48 Times Larger Than First Reported

Face-to-Face With Oil Execs, Pope Francis Says Continued Use of Fossil Fuels Will 'Destroy Civilization'

Further...

If Attacked By A Mob of Clowns, Go For the Juggler: More From Indecline

The plaintive immigrant kids in cages have moved the activist artists of Indecline, who do not fool around, to transform a California billboard for junk removal into a blast at the evils of ICE. Other brilliant Indecline actions: Naked Trump statues, hanging Ku Klux Klowns, murals in Flint and Tijuana, and a people's prison cell for Donnie inside a Trump Hotel room, complete with live rats and the warning, "Rats will eat anything, even their Rat King." We can hope.

Progressive Newswire

Earthjustice

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration for Failing to Protect Gulf of Mexico Wildlife from Offshore Drilling

Environment America

Congress Should Reject Anti-Environmental Farm Bill

Sierra Club

BP Misses the Memo: Arctic Refuge Drilling is Bad Bet

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

HHS Releases ‘Nightmare’ PFAS Chemical Study Suppressed by Scott Pruitt, White House

Food & Water Watch

Unprecedented New Report Details Sweeping Environmental Injustice of Pennsylvania’s Ongoing Fossil Fuel Buildout

Beyond Nuclear

Environmental Coalition Demands Expedited Release of Documents regarding Public and Nonpublic Meetings Between NRC and FERC

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Views

Charles P. Pierce

Just Another Day Where the United States Completely Abandons Its Commitments to the World

Kate Aronoff

Why Abolishing ICE Is Good Climate Policy

Sarah Eckel-Dalrymple, Brienne Kordis

From Wall Street to the Vatican; The Pope’s Chat With Larry Fink

Jill Richardson

Scott Pruitt's Corruption Is Bad, But His Planetary Sabotage Is Worse

Andy Rowell

Iconic African Baobab Trees Dying Due to “Changing Climate”

Jonathan Cook

How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions

Alycee Lane

A Just Dystopia: Climate Activism Must Include Planning for the Worst-Case Scenario

Adam Scott

What Canada’s Pipeline Purchase Means for Line 3 and KXL

Gina Benevento

Who Owns America's Water?

Nikita Naik

Following the Money to Nowhere

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