Heat waves and floods are making Californian prisons increasingly unlivable. The state needs a better plan to address that.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

So far, America’s plan seems to consist of walling off wealthy neighborhoods with hulking gray fortifications and leaving lower-income areas out to dry. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Last week’s rulings have real ramifications for how the government could help vulnerable communities moving forward.

The people protesting “Cop City”—at tremendous personal cost—deserve our support. They’re defending a vital public health and climate resource.

And politicians, despite their posturing, don’t care about any of them.

The growing consensus that two degrees Celsius wouldn’t be so bad could spell doom for vulnerable communities.

While the bill will fall short of the Biden administration’s ambitious climate goals, the fact that it will include climate provisions of any kind is an unexpected surprise.

The president has the power to reform the wayward Tennessee Valley Authority. It’s a bigger deal than you think.

The U.S. government long knew about lead poisoning in a public housing complex in Indiana and it did nothing—an all-too-familiar combination of federal apathy and structural racism.

Saving the planet starts with saving the communities the fossil fuel industry tends to trample.

A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.

The rural, Native, Black, and Latinx communities protesting the controversial pipeline deserve clean, safe places to call home.

The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.

Global warming will exacerbate the Israel-Palestine conflict. But the conflict will also exacerbate the effects of global warming.

Even in a pandemic, we are stuck in the same nightmarish feedback loop of racist policy. The results are predictable and deadly.

The fight to stave off pipeline projects across the country is being led by tribal nations and marginalized communities. It's time to listen to them before it's too late.

Many of the Swedish climate activist's putative allies aren't down for the cause. They're simply hoping to be absolved.

More than 40 people inhaled radioactive dust while working for a company whose vice president is now advising Scott Pruitt.