Climate Desk
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How Linda Garcia risked everything to keep Big Oil out of her community
“There’s a tremendous sense of responsibility in our communities to take care of the planet so that it can be passed on to our children, and their children. We need more people to speak out, stand up, and form armies of resistance.”
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Green New Deal activists make first 2020 endorsement in wildfire-burned California
The youth-led climate activist group, Sunrise Movement, is using their newfound spotlight to back more environmentally focused politicians.
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Dakota Access company bought up dozens of anti-pipeline URLs
A pipeline company buying the domain names of protesting websites: 'standard brand management' or preemptive damage control?
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They worked in sweltering heat for Exxon, Shell, and Walmart. They didn’t get paid a dime.
“I said, ‘You need to give me a day off because I can’t do this anymore.’ It was absolutely ridiculous.”
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How one activist used a little shaming and a lot of patience to clean up Chinese factories
Jun Ma is making companies like Apple and Catcher think twice about the environmental regulations governing their Chinese factories.
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Trump issues Earth Day message without mentioning climate change
How does Trump celebrate Earth Day? He pats himself on the back for the U.S.'s "strong market economy."
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Cape Town’s ‘Day Zero’ water crisis, one year later
How Cape Town averted their water crisis could serve as a model for future impending urban droughts. But they're not out of the woods yet.
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‘We’re not a dump’: Poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills
"Let every state take care of their own trash but don’t bring it to Alabama."
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John Hickenlooper has a curious connection to a Trump Cabinet secretary
He often ended up aligned with David Bernhardt’s lobbying firm on fracking and supporting the oil and gas industry.
