Environment

Push for solar energy on public land destroys sacred Mohave site

June 4, 2015 By Albert Bender

The Genesis solar plant, costing $1.2 billion, has been hailed as a success, but at what cost?

Colombia and world cope with Monsanto’s toxic herbicide

May 29, 2015 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Monsanto's glyphosate, sold as "roundup," is the most widely-used herbicide. In Colombia, however, it's also a weapon of war.

Toxic shock: California’s nightmare oil spill

May 26, 2015 By Blake Skylar

As in the case of so many prior disasters, environmentalists and everyone affected by this devastating oil spill are trying to get through what some have called a "nightmare scenario."

“No more bomb trains”: environmental groups sue over weak regulations

May 20, 2015 By Blake Skylar

"Another derailment and explosion of a train carrying oil. We need to get these exploding death trains off the tracks."

Kayakers paddling in Seattle Port chant, “Shell No”

May 18, 2015 By Tim Wheeler

"Climate Justice NOW," they roared at the oil rig, which loomed like a yellow Darth Vader along the mouth of the Duwamish River.