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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

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…

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…