By Kieran Cooke / Climate News NetworkSep 29, 2016
Eminent U.S. environmentalist Bill McKibben warns that fossil fuel use is destroying the planet, and calls for curbs on the political power of the oil industry. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigAug 23, 2016
While most of the United States has been blinded by the presidential election spectacle, a grass-roots coalition has been fighting "the next Keystone XL” being pushed through—largely under the radar—by Big Carbon. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Bill McKibben / TomDispatchFeb 18, 2016
As bad as Exxon has been in the past, what it’s doing now—entirely legally—is helping push the planet over the edge and into the biggest crisis in the entire span of the human story. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
By Bill McKibben / TomDispatchJan 21, 2016
Even as the global warming crisis makes it clear that coal, natural gas and oil are yesterday’s energy, the momentum of two centuries of fossil fuel development means new projects keep emerging in a zombie-like fashion. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 27, 2014
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, activist Bill McKibben, journalist Naomi Klein, Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and public radio talk show host Brian Lehrer participated in a panel discussion the night before the People's Climate March in New York City this month. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Eddie Bautista, La Tonya Crisp-Sauray and Bill McKibben, TomDispatchSep 15, 2014
On Sunday, Sept. 21, a huge crowd will march through the middle of Manhattan. It will almost certainly be the largest rally about climate change in human history, and one of the largest political protests in many years in New York. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben slaps the administration for taking on easy battles, sidestepping the tough ones and trying to claim environmental progress. Meanwhile, the earth continues to heat up as Obama pursues oil- and coal-based energy policies, and then brags about them. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Bill McKibben, TomDispatchOct 28, 2013
The two-plus year battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has illuminated the Obama presidency like no other issue. It offers the president not just a choice of policies, but a choice of friends, worldviews, styles. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Curtis BrainardOct 18, 2013
"I didn't particularly want to lead a movement, but I wanted to join one, and so I helped to build it," writes environmental activist Bill McKibben in his memoir, "Oil and Honey," an endearing account of his reluctant rise to leadership."I didn't particularly want to lead a movement, but I wanted to join one, and so I helped to build it," writes environmental activist Bill McKibben in his memoir. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Bill McKibben, TomDispatchAug 19, 2013
Most of the movements of the moment -- even highly successful ones -- don’t have easily discernible leaders. There are highly capable people who have worked overtime for decades to make these movements succeed, but there aren’t particular people that the public at large identifies as the face of the fight. The world has changed in this way, and for the better. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 21, 2013
At least three times a week, there is one place online where readers can go for the most comprehensive coverage possible of the workings of American Empire. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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