Tag: Climate
This Lawsuit Could Bring Down Big Oil
Big Oil committed one of the biggest corporate crimes in history. They’ve known for more than 50 years that fossil fuels posed a huge danger…
January 16, 2024
This New Deal Jobs Program Is Coming Back
President Joe Biden's administration just unveiled the American Climate Corps, a program to put 20,000 people to work in clean energy and climate resiliency. But…
September 27, 2023
Federal Firefighters Facing $20,000 Pay Cut In the Middle of Fire Season
Thousands of federal wildland firefighters who are tackling increasingly deadly catastrophic wildfires all over the U.S. — such as the recent series of fires in…
August 18, 2023
The Shocking Truth About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s District
There’s a surprising new home for one of the largest solar panel manufacturing factories in the Western Hemisphere: Dalton, Georgia, a city known for being…
July 21, 2023
Inside a Major Climate Fight in Oil Country
El Pasoans are voting right now on an ambitious new climate policy. The climate charter, or proposition K, would set goals for renewable energy and…
April 26, 2023
Texas AG Ken Paxton Takes Campaign Cash From Power Companies Responsible for Grid Failure
Rochelle Garza, the Democratic nominee for Texas Attorney General, is pledging to investigate the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s faulty grid…
September 26, 2022
Oil Companies Are Delivering Record Returns For Wall Street. That Could Be Good News For Climate Change.
ExxonMobil and Chevron delivered record-shattering profits last quarter, returns that financial news outlet Bloomberg described as ”almost comically huge.” Exxon, the world’s largest non-state energy…
August 18, 2022
Photos Reveal Amazon Workers In Scorching 145° Trailers
Amazon workers at a Tennessee warehouse say they’re regularly required to work full 10-hour shifts inside dangerously overheated trailers, whose temperatures soar as high as…
August 9, 2022
Farmworkers In California’s Wine Country Are Forced To Work Through Raging Wildfires
Produced and edited by Libby Rainey and Ian McKennna California farmworkers are often forced to work through dangerous wildfires even as residents flee. They're calling…
May 12, 2022
Ron Johnson Doesn’t Think Wisconsin Needs More Union Jobs
Oshkosh Defense won a $10 billion contract to build greener USPS vehicles. Now they want to move those jobs to a non-union facility in South…
February 15, 2022
Burn The Forest To Save It, Firefighters Argue
We spoke to a firefighter on the front lines about how we must rethink the way we control fires as the climate crisis intensifies, and…
October 15, 2021