The InterceptAmazon Rainforest Judge Rules That Attorney Steven Donziger Must Remain Under House Arrest Until September The Intercept - Sharon Lerner A federal judge ruled this week that environmental attorney Steven Donziger must remain on house arrest until September. The decision means that by …
The InterceptNews Toxic PFAS Fallout Found Near Incinerator in Upstate New York The Intercept - Sharon Lerner Industrial chemicals known as PFAS have contaminated soil and water near an incinerator in upstate New York that has been burning firefighting foam. …
The InterceptNews Big Plastic Asks Congress for $1 Billion Coronavirus Bailout The Intercept - Sharon Lerner The plastic industry is asking Congress for $1 billion to bail out plastic recycling during the coronavirus crisis. “Recycling is an essential …
The InterceptNews As Africa Drowns in Garbage, the Plastic Business Keeps Booming The Intercept - Sharon Lerner Rosemary Nyambura spends her weekends collecting plastic with her aunt Miriam in the Dandora dump in Nairobi. Because the bottles they sell to other …
The Intercept Trump’s Obsession With Reopening the Economy Ignores Public Health Experts The Intercept - Nick Turse Almost since the moment he issued guidelines for combatting Covid-19 through social distancing, in mid-March, President Donald Trump has been …
The Intercept What the Coronavirus Can Teach Us About the Climate The Intercept - Charles KomanoffChristopher Ketcham Greta Thunberg couldn’t do it. Bill McKibben and 350.org couldn’t do it, and neither could the Paris climate accord. But Covid-19 is cutting …
The Intercept EPA Is Jamming Through Rollbacks That Could Increase Coronavirus Deaths The Intercept - Sharon Lerner While health experts around the country are focused on containing the spread of the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency is making …
The Intercept Kaiser Permanente Threatened to Fire Nurses Treating Covid-19 Patients for Wearing Their Own Masks, Unions Say The Intercept - Akela Lacy Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions …
The Intercept Donald Trump Says America’s Ventilator Shortage Was “Unforeseen.” Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth. The Intercept - Nick Turse In recent days, President Donald Trump has repeatedly defended his administration against the suggestion that the government is failing to secure …
The Intercept Oakland Hospital Took in Coronavirus Cruise Patients. Now, Low on Supplies, Nurses Asked to Reuse Disposable Masks. The Intercept - Akela Lacy Nurses at an Oakland, California hospital caring for patients being tested for Covid-19 received instructions this week to reuse disposable medical …
The Intercept 2.2 Million People in the U.S. Could Die If Coronavirus Goes Unchecked The Intercept - Sharon Lerner Without mitigation, the new coronavirus pandemic could kill as many as 2.2 million people in the U.S., according to a report from the Imperial …
The Intercept Newark’s Lead Crisis Isn’t Over: “People Are Still Drinking Water That They Shouldn’t” The Intercept - Rebecca Nathanson Anna Holloway’s family of six goes through about four cases of 24 plastic water bottles a week. She buys water from the ShopRite and, once a week, …
The Intercept We Have to Change the Way We Talk About Green Jobs The Intercept - Alleen Brown The 2020 election is the first presidential race with climate at its center. Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good …
The InterceptEnvironment Inside the Wet’suwet’en Protest Camp That Refused to Cede Land for a Pipeline The Intercept - Alleen BrownAmber Bracken The weeks leading up to Dr. Karla Tait’s arrest were tense at the Unist’ot’en camp, which for a decade has stood in the way of fossil fuel pipeline …
The InterceptEnvironment A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff’s Unit The Intercept - Will ParrishAlleen Brown At a casino in the small coastal town of North Bend, Oregon, dozens of law enforcement officers and corporate security personnel gathered for a …
The InterceptEnvironment Officials in Puerto Rico Are Undermining a Rooftop Solar Movement in Favor of Natural Gas The Intercept - Alleen Brown Tremors began shaking Puerto Rico just before New Year’s Eve, causing anxiety but only minimally disrupting festivities. On Three Kings Day, January …
The InterceptRaúl Grijalva Trump Is Blowing Up a National Monument in Arizona to Make Way for the Border Wall The Intercept - Ryan Devereaux Contractors working for the Trump administration are blowing apart a mountain on protected lands in southern Arizona to make way for the president’s …
The InterceptAmazon Rainforest How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything The Intercept - Sharon Lerner Last August, during the second-hottest year on record, while the fires in the Amazon rainforest were raging, the ice sheet in Greenland was melting, …
The Intercept The Pesticide Industry’s Playbook for Poisoning the Earth The Intercept - Lee Fang n September 2009, over 3,000 bee enthusiasts from around the world descended on the city of Montpellier in southern France for Apimondia — a festive …
The Intercept Ozone Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by Pollution From U.S. Companies The Intercept - Sharon Lerner The global response to the “ozone hole,” as it came to be known in the 1970s, has long been held up as a model for environmental problem-solving — …
The Intercept The Search for Clean Air Amid Australia’s Smoky Fires The Intercept - Eric Byler The background din of sadness drones loudest when the air in Canberra is safe to breathe. The first two weeks of 2020 have been a pendulum swing …
The Intercept The War on the War on Cancer The Intercept - Sharon Lerner When Angela Ramirez was 38, she felt a slight pain in her chest. At first she thought she had pulled a muscle, but when it didn’t go away, Ramirez …
The Intercept California Farm Bureau Worked to Criminalize Animal Rescue Activism The Intercept - Lee Fang The factory farming industry has had enough of Direct Action Everywhere, the controversial animal liberation activist group. The California Farm …
The Intercept Imperial Oil, Canada’s Exxon Subsidiary, Ignored Its Own Climate Change Research for Decades, Archive Shows The Intercept - Murtaza Hussain Record droughts, raging forest fires, crop failures, and disappearing glaciers: It has become undeniable that the planet is in the early stages of a …
The Intercept The Banality of Apocalypse: Escaping, With “Paw Patrol” and Daniel Tiger, From the Australian Fires The Intercept - Eric Byler When my family and I were still in danger, I emailed these words to a friend* back home in America: We‘re safe, but trapped by fires on three sides. …
The Intercept Climate Crimes on the Border, in the Amazon, and in Boardrooms: The Intercept’s 2019 Environment Coverage The Intercept A look back at The Intercept’s must-read environment stories from 2019. Forged in Fire: California’s Lessons for a Green New Deal Days before the …
The Intercept Inside the Plot to Murder Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres The Intercept - Danielle MackeyChiara Eisner It has been more than three years since Berta Cáceres was murdered in her home in Honduras. Cáceres was a 44-year-old activist, mother of four, and …
The Intercept Europe Plans to Phase Out PFAS by 2030 The Intercept - Sharon Lerner Environmental officials from Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark today announced a plan to restrict all PFAS compounds under Europe’s …
The Intercept Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks The Intercept - Kate Aronoff Last Wednesday, over 300 demonstrators at COP25 in Madrid — this year’s 14-day U.N. climate talks, the group’s longest ever — watched from the …
