A recently leaked report from private security firm Tigerswan and exposed by the Intercept and Grist shows how the leading global climate campaign group, 350.org, was among organizations targeted by Tigerswan while campaigning against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Safe & Healthy Colorado, a grassroots coalition of dozens of endorsing community and statewide organizations, launched a statewide ballot initiative for a gradual phase out of new oil and gas permits by 2030.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 1, known as the "Polluters Over People Act," which would allegedly exacerbate the climate crisis and the disproportionate harm to frontline communities.
Despite major opposition from the climate justice community, including Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic and Alaska Wilderness League, President Joe Biden approved the Willow Oil Drilling Project - a major oil drilling operation to be constructed on Alaska's North Slope.
Over the weekend, communities in Atlanta have been rising up as part of a week-long mobilization to "Stop Cop City." "Cop City" is a $90 million, 85-acre urban warfare facility to "train" police forces across the country.
The Board of the U.S. Federal Reserve System has released a set of draft principles with recommendations on how best to protect the U.S. financial system from catastrophic climate disasters that threaten the U.S. economy.
A new study published found that over the past few decades, Exxon's own scientists predicted how much their own burning of fossil fuels would warm the planet-even more accurately than some academic and government models.
After Senator Joe Manchin's "permitting reform" provision drew opposition from both parties and frontline communities, the National Defense Authorization Act moved forward without Manchin's Dirty Deal provisions, marking another major win for climate champions and people power.
As the final outcomes of the UN Climate Talks in Egypt (COP27) have been announced, the text paves the way for the continued expansion of fossil fuels and increased climate impacts, according to 350.org.
U.S. presidential envoy for climate John Kerry said the U.S. would back a proposal to phase down all fossil fuels at COP27 as long as it focused on projects with "unchecked emissions.
Austria has announced $50 million for climate "loss and damage" at COP27 just hours after Scotland's first Minister pledged an additional $5.7 million to support developing countries with direct finance to cope with the unavoidable, devastating impacts of the climate crisis.
After Senator Joe Manchin's "permitting reform" provision drew opposition from both parties, Manchin asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to withdraw the legislation as a provision to the continuing resolution to fund the government.
President Joe Biden has signed historic climate legislation this week. With momentum on their side, environmental groups are pushing for more action from the government's key institutions to stop investments in fossil fuels.
