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By Jake Johnson Amid reports that oil industry-friendly former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz remains under consideration to return to his old post in the incoming Biden administration, a diverse coalition of environmental groups is mobilizing for an “all-out push” to keep Moniz away from the White House and demand a cabinet willing to boldly confront […]

By Richard Thomas Joseph Biden was elected to office as the world continues to struggle with a global pandemic that has killed more than a million people and wreaked devastating economic havoc. The pandemic has highlighted how humankind’s abuse of our planet and the irreversible loss of the biodiversity and ecosystem services upon which we […]

By Scott Faber The staggering number of food and farm workers who have died from Covid-19 has laid bare the Trump administration’s disastrous policies on food and farm issues. President Trump’s failure to provide these workers with protections from the coronavirus was the latest bad decision that made our food and the people who produce […]

By Dan Farber With the next president of the United States finally decided, we can now begin moving on to the work at hand. Joe Biden’s election creates an exciting opportunity for climate action. But there’s one clear hurdle: Unless the January runoff elections in Georgia for two Senate seats deliver surprising success to the […]

By Scott Faber No candidate for president has ever pledged to make the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS a priority – until now. In his environmental justice plan, President-elect Joe Biden pledged to set enforceable limits for PFAS in drinking water and to designate PFAS as a hazardous substance under the Superfund cleanup law. […]