What Clean Energy Transition?
Commentary by Steve Hendricks You may ask why, despite the growth in renewables, we keep burning more carbon than ever. The answer is simple: We—and here We means both the great mass of people and…
Environment
Biogas from CAFO Waste Is a Climate Disaster
By Brian Bienkowski A Wisconsin project dubbed the “world’s largest manure biogas project” emits nearly 5,000 metric tons of climate-warming methane annually, roughly equivalent to emissions from 30,000 gasoline-powered vehicles, according to state data that…
Deep-sea Mining Controversy Explained
By Rachel Ramirez For Solomon Pili Kaho’ohalahala, a Native Hawaiian elder known as “Uncle Sol” from the island of Lana’i, the ocean is his lifeline. Over the past few years, he has become the voice…
Trump Administration to Prioritize Livestock on Public Lands
By George Wuerthner The Trump administration, in a March 2026, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), mandates that livestock production be given priority use on public lands. The administration has declared a “no net loss of Animal…
Big Green + Big Tech
“Environmental” groups selling out frontline communities to support data centers By Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright The President has repaid his Big Tech donors with a series of favorable policies designed to fast track the approval and…
US Tech Giants, EU Hid Datacenter Pollution
By Al Mayadeen English Microsoft and other American technology corporations successfully pushed the EU to adopt a confidentiality clause that blocks public access to environmental data from individual datacentres. Microsoft and other US tech giants…
We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate
By Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When we look around we…
Patagonia Forest Fires
Reveal Imperialist Theft of Protected Lands By Aby L. Sène Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Thomas Sankara, once declared at the International Conference on Trees and Forests in Paris in February 1986 that the “struggle to defend the…
We’re Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World
But There’s a Degrowth Exit up Ahead By Stan Cox Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don’t bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we’re doing nothing less than cooking ourselves….
Koch Network Pushes Trump to Accelerate AI
By Geoff Dembicki A political group created by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch earlier this year wrote to the U.S. government making requests about artificial intelligence. “To seize the moment and ensure that AI…