In what local advocates are touting as a major victory, a Formosa Plastics affiliate announced earlier this week it will delay major construction of a $9.4 billion petrochemical complex in St. James
Last week, students and youth activists took part in the first big Fridays For Future climate action since the coronavirus pandemic began. The strikes, scheduled in at least 3,500 locations around the
President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet is beginning to emerge, as yesterday news broke that he is expected to tap former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to lead the Department of Energy, with former EPA
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Michael Regan to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Regan, currently the head of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality, would be the first Black man to lead
A record number of environmental activists were killed last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the NGO Global Witness. The 2019 total of 212 activists killed (more than four per
Environmental defenders and sustainable development advocates are being killed in high numbers in Colombia as violent conflicts erupt over land and resources, Vox reports. For decades the civil war between the Colombian
Pipeline companies are hiring off-duty cops, prison guards, and even probation and parole officers to act as a private police force to deter and remove activists seeking to protest oil and gas
Yesterday’s occupation of the United States Capitol building by a mob of violent, overwhelmingly white, insurrectionists — incited and encouraged by President Trump in an attempted coup seeking to overthrow an election
Philipino activists and international aid groups are warning climate change makes destructive storms like Super Typhoon Goni more common. "It was an apocalypse, a circumstance you can't even imagine,” Jacques Fallaria, a
The Biden administration on Monday told a federal appeals court it should not wait to send a lawsuit, brought by youth activists claiming a constitutional right to protection from climate change, back