News (U.S.) Industrialized Militaries Are a Bigger Part of the Climate Emergency Than You KnowThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain Over a century before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed. Tagore, an …
News (U.S.) What’s in a Trump Straw?The Intercept - Naomi Klein Watch as Naomi Klein explains why the overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s …
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg on the Climate Fight: “If We Can Save the Banks Then We Can Save the World”The Intercept - Naomi Klein We are living through some scary times. As Greta has told us so often: “Our house is on fire.” And I firmly believe that there are three things that …
Climate Senate Democrats Draft Pro-Athlete Instagram Influencers Into Climate FightThe Intercept - Aída Chávez On Thursday, after a summer of extreme heat, the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis convened to hear from a group of people …
Environment The Right to a Future — With Naomi Klein and Greta ThunbergThe Intercept The Intercept invites you to watch a special event in New York City hosted by Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein, author of the forthcoming …
Exxon Mobil Exxon Mobil Is Funding Centrist Democratic Think Tank, Disclosures RevealThe Intercept - Kate Aronoff The Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank that grew out of the party’s pro-business wing in the 1980s and ’90s, received …
U.S. Politics After Climate Forum, Biden Heads to a Fundraiser Co-Hosted by a Fossil Fuel ExecutiveThe Intercept - Akela Lacy The day after Joe Biden participates in CNN’s climate forum in New York, the former vice president will head to a high-dollar fundraiser co-hosted by …
Amazon Rainforest Larry Fink, Joe Biden’s Wall Street Ally, is Deeply Invested in Amazon Cattle Ranching, a Force Behind DeforestationThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Larry Fink, the influential chief executive of BlackRock, which manages more than $6 trillion in investments, wants the public to know that he is …
Environment How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of RightsThe Intercept - H. Claire Brown Earlier this summer, environmental activists in Ohio were alarmed by the passage of a mysterious state budget amendment that would close a new avenue …
World News GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the AmazonThe Intercept - Lee Fang This summer, fires are being used to clear wide swaths of the Amazon at an unprecedented rate. One fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in …
Monsanto Emails Show Monsanto Orchestrated GOP Effort to Intimidate Cancer ResearchersThe Intercept - Lee Fang In 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classified glyphosate, an active …
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — And More Likely to SucceedThe Intercept - Kate Aronoff If you tried to design a program with the aim of offending the top brass of the world’s most powerful corporations and the politicians whose careers …
Climate Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate DebateThe Intercept - Naomi Klein Your meeting in San Francisco this weekend takes place against a backdrop that is literally on fire. You are gathering one month after the hottest …
News (U.S.) Oil Lobbyist Touts Success in Effort to Criminalize Pipeline Protests, Leaked Recording ShowsThe Intercept - Lee Fang The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a powerful lobbying group that represents major chemical plants and oil refineries, including Valero …
Industry Cites 3M Experiment That Exposed Cancer Patients to PFAS to Claim the Chemicals Aren’t So BadThe Intercept - Sharon Lerner Defenders of the chemicals known as PFAS have seized upon an industry-funded study of cancer patients as evidence that the compounds used to make …
The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can’t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle.The Intercept - Natasha Lennard The four-page manifesto believed to be written by suspected El Paso mass shooter Patrick Crusius abounds with Trumpian racist nationalism. “This …
More Than 160 Environmental Defenders Were Killed in 2018, and Many Others Labeled Terrorists and CriminalsThe Intercept - Alleen Brown Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, was disturbed to learn that her name had been …
Ohio Republicans Balked at a Nuclear Bailout, so the Industry Elected New Republicans — and Walked Away with $1.1 BillionThe Intercept - Ryan GrimAkela Lacy On Tuesday, a dark-money effort linked primarily to the Ohio nuclear industry delivered an audacious payoff, as a newly elected state legislature …
Activists Camped at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Face Government Opposition as They Attempt to Block Telescope Construction on SacredThe Intercept - Aída Chávez On July 17, police in riot gear arrested at least 33 Native Hawaiian elders, or kupuna, for peacefully blocking construction of a massive telescope …
Climate Activists from Extinction Rebellion Glued Themselves to the Capitol to Disrupt House VotesThe Intercept - Aída Chávez On Tuesday evening, members of the Washington, D.C., chapter of Extinction Rebellion superglued themselves to each other and to the passages …
Play buttonPlastic How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the WorldThe Intercept - Sharon Lerner The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and …
Long-form Journalism On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate CatastropheThe Intercept - Alexander Zaitchik The river basin at the center of Latin America called the Amazon is roughly the size of Australia. Created at the beginning of the world by a …
The PowerPoint That Got a Climate Scientist Disinvited From a Shell ConferenceThe Intercept - Kate Aronoff The first three slides of climate scientist Peter Kalmus’s plenary speech to Shell’s Powering Progress Together conference were intended to gauge …
Will Bernie Sanders Stick With a Carbon Tax In His Push For a Green New Deal?The Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen A defining feature of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s political career is his consistency. The economy is rigged against the working class, the independent …
EPA Move to Phase Out Animal Experiments Could Mean the End of Toxics RegulationsThe Intercept - Sharon Lerner The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with a plan to sharply reduce and ultimately phase out experimental testing on lab animals. In …
Sunrise Movement Rallies Outside Democratic National Committee Headquarters Over Climate Change Debate FailureThe Intercept - Aída Chávez About 100 young activists with the Sunrise Movement rallied outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Tuesday, demanding the party to …
Jay Inslee Just Dropped the Most Ambitious Climate Plan From a Presidential Candidate. Here’s Who It Targets.The Intercept - Kate Aronoff Jay Inslee, a 2020 presidential hopeful, released an expansive plan on Monday that attempts to capture and rein in the full range of what’s propping …
We Have to Finance a Global Green New Deal — or Face the ConsequencesThe Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen As politicians talk more about ramping up their commitments to reducing carbon emissions — over the weekend, even Vice President Mike Pence squirmed …
She Defended Her Land Against a Mine in Guatemala. Then She Fled in Fear for Her Life.The Intercept - Alleen Brown Teresa Muñoz was riding her motorbike along her regular delivery route on a winding Guatemala road, carrying the homemade cheese she sold for a …
