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  • Economy & Work
    What Keeping Oil in the Ground Can Do for Economic Inequality
    March 17, 2016
    | Yessenia Funes
    A successful energy transition to renewables could not only rescue the planet but create a more just economy.
  • Money & Politics
    ‘Somebody Intervened in Washington’
    December 23, 2015
    | Alec MacGillis
    How oil industry lobbyists played the long game — wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness.
  • Why an Oil Glut May Lead to a New World of Energy
    August 13, 2015
    | Michael T. Klare and Tom Engelhardt
    Major producers continue to pump out record levels of crude and world demand remains essentially flat. Could we, in fact, be witnessing a fundamental shift in the energy industry?
  • Koch Funding of Universities Shrouded In Secrecy
    April 24, 2015
    | Kalin Jordan
    If transparency is seen as such a threat, only one logical question remains: What are they so afraid of disclosing?
  • Environment
    Has California’s Fracking Boom Already Gone Bust?
    February 6, 2015
    | Tara Lohan
    There was a time, just a few years ago, that most news reports deemed a shale oil boom inevitable in the Golden State. But now, it’s not looking like such a sure thing after all.
  • Environment
    Obama Seeks Wilderness Designation for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    January 27, 2015
    | Stephanie Spear
    President Obama’s administration moved to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, one of the most wild and remote areas in the world.
  • Activism
    When Activism Means Putting Your Life on the Line
    January 15, 2015
    | Karin Kamp
    Kumi Naidoo is passionate about standing up for a sustainable world, even when what's required is "extremely scary."
  • Environment
    One Year of Big Oil Subsidies Could Insure 5.5 Million Children
    January 14, 2015
    | Nadia Prupis
    Environmental and social justice groups built an interactive calculator to measure the real cost of fossil fuel subsidies.
  • Environment
    Is Rising Infant Death in Utah Related to Oil Production?
    January 12, 2015
    | Anastasia Pantsios
    A veteran midwife is under attack for questioning the rise of infant deaths in a Utah oil boomtown.
  • Environment
    Bill McKibben on Why Obama Wants to Approve Keystone
    January 7, 2015
    | Karin Kamp
    The White House says the president will veto the controversial pipeline. But could pressure from Big Oil lead him to change his mind?


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