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  • Environment
    Young People in Georgia Fight for Climate Ahead of Runoff Elections
    December 18, 2020
    | Mekdela Maskal
    Throughout this election season, young voters and activists have forced climate change to center stage. The Georgia runoff is no exception.
  • Environment
    Roundup: Trump's Environmental Rollbacks
    October 29, 2020

    President Trump has consistently garnered the lowest possible ratings from environmental and climate crisis groups. Preeminent organizations of scientists — both national and international — have decried his policies and his removal of the United States from environmental and health agreements. Career scientists and policy-makers in federal agencies have resigned over the administration's new policies. Employees of federal agencies are no longer permitted to use the phrase "climate change."  The rule changes affect air and ...

  • Justice
    A Judge Handed the Standing Rock Tribes a Big Win in Their Dakota Access Pipeline Fight
    July 8, 2020
    | Will Peischel

    After four years locked in legal struggle over the construction of the controversial 1,172 mile-long, Dakota Access Pipeline, the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes won a major victory on Monday when a federal court ordered the pipeline to cease its operations by August 5.

  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: James Balog Reads 'Ice Diamonds'
    April 24, 2020
    A poetic ode to the stunning pieces of glacier ice he saw washing up on a beach in Iceland.
  • Activism
    Honoring Women Who Defend Land and Human Rights
    March 8, 2017
    | Osprey Orielle Lake and Emily Arasim
    Around the world, women are rising up to protect the Earth, one another and the common good.
  • Environment
    For Environmental Activists, 2015 Was the Deadliest Year Yet
    June 22, 2016
    | Xian Chiang-Waren
    Governments have increasingly criminalized activists, and many of the 185 who were killed faced assassination, torture or public execution.
  • Saving the Earth from Ourselves
    September 27, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo joins Moyers & Company to discuss the politics of global warming and the urgency of environmental activism.
  • Environment
    Erich Pica and Mary Sweeters
    July 17, 2009 | Bill Moyers Journal
    Bill Moyers talks with two environmental activists who are disappointed with President Obama's progress on environmental initiatives.
  • Environment
    The Politics of Trees
    September 1, 1992 | Listening to America
    Bill Moyers looks at the ongoing debate about how we manage the rapidly disappearing old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
  • Gro Harlem Brundtland
    November 7, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    Gro Harlem Brundtland, prominent environmentalist and first woman to be elected Prime Minister of Norway speaks with Bill Moyers.


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