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Sunrise Says Biden Must 'Act Urgently' on Infrastructure, Avoid 'Performative Negotiations' With GOP

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) meet in the Oval Office of the White House on May 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Doug Mills via Getty Images)

Biden Budget Would Send $1.3 Billion More to Israeli Military Than to Global Climate Programs: Analysis

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

The body of a Palestinian man named Ahmed Al-Shenbari, who was killed during an Israeli raid on Beit Hanoun City, is taken to a mortuary on May 11, 2021 in Gaza. (Photo: Fatima Shbair via Getty Images)

A group of anti-war veterans said President Joe Biden's spending priorities indicate that he thinks "preserving apartheid is more important than fighting climate change."

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'Generation on Fire': Sunrise Movement Activists to March 400 Miles From New Orleans to Houston

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement began a 400-mile march from New Orleans to Houston on May 10, 2021. (Photo: Sunrise Movement)

"We're living in constant crisis: hurricanes, superstorms, jobs that break our...

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California's New Fossil Fuel Pledge 'Significant' But Still a 'Half-Measure,' Say Climate Advocates

Kenny Stancil and Jessica Corbett, staff writers

$Pump jacks operate at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracturing site in Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California. (Photo: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)$

"The challenge now is to speed up the timeline so that it meets the urgency...

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A piece of the Perito Moreno glacier, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, breaks off and crashes into Lake Argentina in the Los Glaciares National Park on April 5, 2019 in Santa Cruz province, Argentina. (Photo: David Silverman via Getty Images)

Study Reveals Rapid Melting of Glaciers Has Shifted Earth's Axis

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg in a video released shortly before the Biden administration kicked off a two-day virtual summit of international leaders to address the climate crisis. "The gap between what needs to be done and what we are actually doing is widening by the minute," says Thunberg. "The gap between the urgency needed and the current level of awareness and attention is becoming more and more absurd." (Photo: Screenshot/NowThis News)

Greta Thunberg Says Humanity Must Not Be Fooled by 'Bullsh*t' Climate Targets of World Leaders

People hold signs calling for U.S. President Joe Biden to support a Green New Deal and end his support of pipelines and the fossil fuel industry in St. Paul on January 29, 2021. (Photo: Tim Evans/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate Groups Warn Reported Biden Plan to Cut Emissions in Half by 2030 'Not Good Enough'

This picture taken on April 5, 2021 shows damaged homes after a flash flood in Waiwerang village, East Flores, as at least 157 people have been killed in Indonesia and neighboring East Timor with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone battered the Southeast Asian nations. (Photo: Reynold Atagoran/AFP via Getty Images)

Youth Demand US Action on Climate-Induced Loss and Damage in Global South

Northwestern Greenland in the Arctic Circle is visible from a satellite on August 12, 2019. (Photo: Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2019/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

New Google Earth Timelapse Feature Offers Devastating View of Climate Emergency

Dozens of New York residents with the organization Rise and Resist, as well as co-sponsor Rainforest Action Network, demanded an end to JPMorgan Chase's financing of the climate emergency during a demonstration at the bank's new headquarters in central Manhattan on November 20, 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Majority in US Want Government to Rein In Wall Street's Climate Destruction: Poll

Activists hold signs reading "We Are Treating the Symptoms, Not the Cause" and "There Is No Planet B" during a climate justice demonstration outside the Spanish Parliament on September 25, 2020 in Madrid. (Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez via Getty Images)

'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever

<p>A carbon explorer searches for data on global warming. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/berkeleylab/2826539120">Berkeley Lab</a>/Flickr/cc)</p>

Experts Urge World Leaders to 'Put Marine Ecosystems at the Heart of Climate Policy'

A new report from International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies details climate disaster-related displacement over the past six months. (Photo: Philippine Red Cross)

Climate Crisis Displaced Over 10 Million People in Past Six Months: Red Cross

This photo from September 1, 2017, shows Spain on its way to its worst drought in 20 years.

'Climate Change Is Here': Europe's Recent Droughts 'Unprecedented' in Millennia, Study Finds

A large power line lies across a Chevron gas station following the passage of Hurricane Laura through Lake Charles, Louisiana on August 27, 2020. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

'First-of-Its-Kind' FTC Complaint Filed Against Chevron for Climate Lies

A new analysis found 21.6% of homes in redlined areas of Sacramento face high risk of flooding compared with 11.8% of homes in greenlined neighborhoods of the California city. (Image: Redfin)

Study Finds Redlined Areas Face Greater Flood Risk From Climate Crisis

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Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Science Group Says Bill Will Help Keep Workers Safe as Climate Change Makes Hot Day More Frequent, Intense

Chesapeake Climate Action Network

Climate and Policy Experts Agree: America Can Achieve Biden’s Goal of 100% Clean Electricity by 2035

Climate Justice Alliance

Climate Justice Alliance Demands Energy Democracy & Just Recovery for Millions Abandoned Without Power & Water

350.org

Climate Change-Fueled Texas Freeze Escalates Need for End of Fossil Fuel Era, Direct Relief and Recovery

Indigenous Environmental Network

Frontline Organizations Demand a Just Recovery After Millions are Left to Freeze in the Face of Another Climate Catastrophe in Texas & the Southeast

Greenpeace

The Green New Deal Is the Cure, Not the Cause, for What’s Happening in Texas

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Nnimmo Bassey

Okavango, Oil Drilling, and the Tragedy of Africa

Lobato Felizola

Bolsonaro Is Destroying the Amazon While Pretending to Protect It

Alessandra Bergamin

Across Asia, People Displaced by Climate Disasters Continue to Be Vulnerable With Little Promise of Relief

Jennifer Morgan

It Is Time to Transition to a World Beyond Fossil Fuels—Our Lives Depend On It

Nadia Ahmad

Climate Cages: What the US Should Remember From Slavery and Colonialism in Devising Climate Strategy

Robin Broad, John Cavanagh

Can We Protect the Very Thing That Sustains Life?

Woody Hastings

A Tale of Two Cities: One Planning for the 2050s, the Other for the 1950s

Denita Jones

Deregulated, Privatized Utilities in Texas Are Designed for Private Gain at Public Expense

Carmen Scurato

Resilient Networks Can Save Lives

Yousef Rabhi, Anna Hansen

We Are Local Leaders Uniting to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable