A judge in New York’s Supreme Court sided with Exxon in a case that accused the fossil fuel giant of lying to investors about the true cost of the climate crisis. The judge did not absolve Exxon from its contribution to the climate crisis, but insisted that New York State failed to prove that the […]
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday morning that he is nominating CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as U.S. Secretary of State. “We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things,” Trump said today. The president noted that the Iran nuclear deal was a point of contention, but there were other issues […]
By Jamie Henn Let’s talk for a moment about how the climate movement is going to fight back in 2018. But first, a public service announcement. This Jan. 31, movement leaders like the one-and-only Bernie Sanders, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP, and more, […]
The following is a speech given by Naomi Klein in New York City on Jan. 10. I want to thank Mayor de Blasio for this historic announcement that New York is divesting from fossil fuels and suing five oil majors. What’s happening here is not only about changing the economics of energy, speeding the transition […]
By Giovanni Ortolani The U.S. is quitting UNESCO, the United Nations organization that coordinates international efforts to foster peace and sustainable development, and to eradicate poverty. The Trump administration made the announcement on Oct. 12. The withdrawal takes effect Dec. 31, 2018, and the U.S. will remain a full member until then. “This decision was […]
By Mary Mazzoni More than 97 percent of climate scientists agree the planet is warming and that human activity is largely responsible. For perspective, that’s as conclusive as the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. This scientific consensus is accepted by people and their governments in virtually every corner of the world, with one […]
The White House is readying a plan to push out former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State in the coming weeks, multiple outlets reported Thursday. Tillerson’s troubled tenure at the State Department has been marked by frequent clashes with President Trump over policy as well as fierce opposition from career diplomats in the […]
Rumors and mixed signals on the U.S. plans for the Paris agreement swirled over the weekend as the Trump administration prepared for its first UN General Assembly meeting this week. Reports surfaced that a White House senior official had indicated at an energy summit in Montreal that the U.S. might soften its opposition to the […]
New York’s highest court dealt ExxonMobil a major blow Tuesday when it declined to hear the oil giant’s appeal to block New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman‘s subpoena seeking audit documents in an ongoing fraud investigation of what “Exxon Knew” about the link between fossil fuels and climate change. The Court of Appeals refused to […]