Environment

BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 17, 2010 These deformed individuals carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world lack the capacity for empathy. They possess the peculiar ability to organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications.Those carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Capitalist Hagiography Has Little Room for Saints

Stuart Whatley / Truthdig May 5, 2010 Perhaps the most enervating element of the BP-Deepwater Horizon disaster is its eerie familiarity -- the sheer, inexorable predictability of it all. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Clean Coal, ‘Dirty Business’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 29, 2010 A new documentary investigates the "true social and environmental costs of coal power" and debunks the myth of clean coal. America and China both use much of the world's energy and have much of its coal. This fight is only going to heat up. Check out extensive clips after the jump. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy California

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Mar 26, 2010 There's a disaster waiting to happen in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and a handful of wealthy farmers seem to like it that way. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Cracking Down on Fracking

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 24, 2010 Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Power Plant for the Backyard

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2010 The impresario behind this newfangled clean-energy box sees one of his mini power plants in every home, but it's not clear if the little miracles even work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is Real

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 19, 2010 We're the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can't be stupid. We're just pretending, right? We're not really taking seriously the "argument" that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence -- or even proof -- that climate change is some kind of hoax. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama’s Nuclear Option

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 17, 2010 President Obama's publicly financed resuscitation of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. is bound to fail, another taxpayer bailout waiting to happen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Climate Change Deniers Freeze Al Gore in Effigy

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2010 Some climate change deniers have schlepped a frozen sculpture of Al Gore to Alaska to prove that, science be damned, global warming can't possibly be happening because "it still gets cold" in the arctic state. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 The nonbinding, take-it-or-leave-it Copenhagen accord may be a failure, but the whole process has inspired a new generation of activists. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 16, 2009 As the United Nations' climate summit enters its final week in the home country of Hans Christian Andersen, the notion that a binding agreement will come from this gathering looks more and more like a fairy tale. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Palin’s Climate Epiphany

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 15, 2009 Back in the heady days of 2008, as governor of our most at-risk state, Sarah Palin sounded a dire warning against climate change What a difference a book tour makesAs governor of our most at-risk state, Sarah Palin sounded a dire warning against climate change. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )