The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.
The Terrifying Implications of India’s Elections for People and the Planet
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Pollution
Corporate Self-Regulation Is a Global Crisis
When companies do business in a regulatory vacuum, they make their own rules. And from the U.S. to Zambia, many governments are only too happy to let them.
Donald Trump: Invasive Species
Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into ecocide?
The Pentagon Makes War on Alaska’s Pristine Wilderness
For the wildlife and ecosystems of the Arctic, war has already arrived.
The Moment for Climate Justice
As global civil society calls for a renewable energy revolution, the U.S. Congress is considering an African energy initiative that leaves the door wide open to fossil fuels.
Colombia: Success Story or Cautionary Tale?
Washington’s pursuit of trade with Colombia — encapsulated by the recent U.S.-Colombia free-trade agreement — is abetting human rights abuses and marginalizing Colombian activists.
Ghana’s Chinese Gold Rush
Compared to the West’s neoliberalism, China’s approach to investment in Africa has often been somewhat idealized as more of a “partnership” with the host country, with less moralizing by the Chinese over human rights practices and fewer strings attached economically....
We’re Not Broke
These revenue-raisers and spending cuts would narrow the federal budget deficit by $881 billion per year, nearly eliminating it altogether.
America Is Not Broke
This report challenges the premise that America is broke. In fact, we argue that the current fiscal challenge poses an opportunity to harness our ample but misdirected resources in ways that will make the country stronger.
Pollution Knows No Borders
The three member countries of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America, a body created as part of NAFTA’s environmental side agreement, are facing high rates of emissions of mercury, arsenic, and chromium, according to Orlando Cabrera, the manager of the Air Quality Program and of the Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry (PRTR) of North America.