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June 15, 2020
Nick Martin
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Battle Is About People, Not Precedent
The rural, Native, Black, and Latinx communities protesting the controversial pipeline deserve clean, safe places to call home.
June 8, 2020
Benjamin Franta
The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities
Stanford’s divestment debate shows how effective fossil fuel companies have been at colonizing academia.
June 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
BP Is Not Woke. It’s an Imperialist Success Story.
The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.
June 3, 2020
Nick Martin
The Brands Don’t Care About George Floyd’s Death
Corporations that speak out about racial injustice are not brave. They’re manipulative.
June 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is Puerto Rico About to Give Another Terrible Energy Contract to an American Company?
Prepa, the island’s electric power company, and FEMA have found themselves embroiled in scandal before.
June 1, 2020
Geoff Dembicki
Trump Is Bailing Out Big Meat—and Further Screwing the Planet
Preserving the current system means preserving a climate-destroying supply chain built around industrial meat production.
May 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
May 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Democrats Can Win Coal Country—and the 2020 Election
The fossil fuel industry is hemorrhaging jobs in swing states.
May 7, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Oil Crash Could Be Geothermal’s Big Break
Geothermal power requires similar infrastructure and skills as fossil fuel extraction, which means laid-off oil workers could switch to greener work pretty easily.
May 1, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Federal Reserve Is Accelerating the Climate Crisis
Bailing out money-losing fossil fuel companies is not sound economic policy.
April 29, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Give Me Meat and Give Them Death
Trump’s executive order requiring industrial meatpackers to keep operating is murder.
April 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Urgent Message of Negative Oil Prices
A transition for at-risk fossil-fuel workers has to be at the heart of the next stimulus package.
April 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
An Airline Bailout Should Have More Strings Attached Than a Harp
The industry was a hot mess before the coronavirus. Cash plus more deregulation will only make it worse.
April 8, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Does Big Oil Need Big Government to Survive?
For the first time in a while, Texas is considering curbing oil supply.
April 7, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Brands Feel Your Pain
What pandemic responses from Starbucks to 1-800-Contacts say about the grotesque shortcomings of corporate social responsibility
April 3, 2020
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J.C. Pan
The Pandemic’s Shameless Profiteers
While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.
April 3, 2020
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Corporations Are Salivating Over the Coronavirus Pandemic
Pay attention to the rules and regulations being changed right now, and whom they benefit.
February 24, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Beware a Bezos Bearing Gifts
A field guide to corporate climate pledges
March 14, 2018
Becca Rothfeld
J.G. Ballard’s Eerily Accurate Dystopias
His novels “Crash” and “Super-Cannes” depict a world of tech-enhanced luxury and crushing malaise.
December 15, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump Is the Wrong Target for Climate Activists
The administration isn't going to change its mind on protecting the environment. But consumer pressure on corporations could do just that.
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