Environment

Democrats Are Using Skyrocketing Energy Costs as a Classic “Shock Doctrine” to Roll Back Climate Policies Under the Guise of “Affordability”

Bill Wolfe June 3, 2026

Forest Service Tries to Illegally Shrink “Secure Habitat” in Huge Deforestation Project Spurring Lawsuit to Protect Grizzlies

Mike Garrity June 3, 2026

Vampire Planet: So Cal’s Chemical Disaster, a Gift from the War Machine

Joshua Frank May 29, 2026

Tree-Killers Are Sick, the Nation is Sick, Forests Are Not

Steve Kelly May 29, 2026

A City is a Body of Fate

David Reid May 29, 2026

Greater Yellowstone Coalition Sells Out Wilderness in Greater Yellowstone

George Wuerthner May 28, 2026

The Long History of Controlling Water and Why It No Longer Works

Jeremy Rifkin May 26, 2026

Vampire Planet: When the Oceans Die

Joshua Frank May 22, 2026

Overshoot: Implications for Western Public Lands Ranching

John Carter May 22, 2026

Conservation Groups Challenge Red Lodge Area Logging Project Again

Mike Garrity May 20, 2026

Protect the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System

Matt Sedlar May 19, 2026

Life in Cancer Alley, When a Liquified Natural Gas Facility Moves In

Laura Flanders May 18, 2026

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Alternative Climate Summit Seeks More Action on Global Warming

Pete Dolack May 17, 2026

Vampire Planet: China’s (Green) Economic Imperialism

Joshua Frank May 15, 2026

Calling Bull on Forest Service and Timber Industry Propaganda About “Unnaturally Thick Forests”

Mike Garrity May 15, 2026

FEMA Review Council Recommends Reducing Federal Disaster Declarations, Backs National Flood Insurance Privatization

Matt Sedlar May 14, 2026

Fanon’s Rainbow: The Lithium Under Appalachia

John Kendall Hawkins May 13, 2026

Trump’s New “Coalie” Mascot and Myth of “Clean, Beautiful Coal” have a Long History in Advertising

Annie Persons May 13, 2026

The End of Hansel Valley and the Beginning of a Post-Industrial Dark Age

Kayo Robertson May 12, 2026

A Force for a Livable Planet: Mitchel Cohen’s Unwavering Sense of Direction

Jeffrey St. Clair May 12, 2026

Thoreau the Scientist: How His Environmental Research Informed “Walden” and Later Works

Robert M. Thorson May 12, 2026

Vampire Planet: Cyanide Bombs and a “Shark Tank” Data Center

Joshua Frank May 8, 2026

It’s the Climate Stupid

George Wuerthner May 8, 2026

The Ruling Class’s Ongoing Destruction of Nature in Colorado, a Sign of the Times

Phil Doe May 7, 2026

Forest Service Withdraws Cooke City Deforestation Project on the Border of Yellowstone National Park After Being Sued by Conservation Groups

Mike Garrity May 6, 2026

Freedom of Information Act Records Reveal U.S. Forest Service Considering Nationwide Chainsaw Use in Wilderness

CounterPunch News Service May 6, 2026

Vampire Planet: This Week in the Anthropocene

Joshua Frank May 1, 2026

Xavier Becerra Says We Must Think About the Future of Humanity — Then Cashes Checks from Chevron

Andrea León-Grossmann May 1, 2026

Dysfunction and Damage: Flathead National Forest’s Round Star Project

John Carter April 30, 2026

Conservationists File Lawsuit to Stop Forest Service’s Hyalite-South Cottonwood Old Growth Logging Project In Montana’s Most Popular National Forest Recreation Area

Mike Garrity April 30, 2026

Trump Hits a Home Run for the Green Transition

Dean Baker April 29, 2026

Why the Southeast is Burning

Zachary Handlos April 29, 2026

Return of the Yellow Monster of the Diné: Uranium Mining on the Big Rez

Bill Hatch April 27, 2026

The Forest Service’s Bear-Palmer Logging and Burning Project Will Devastate Snag-Dependent Owls

Sara Johnson April 24, 2026

Trump Administration to Prioritize Livestock On Public Lands

George Wuerthner April 21, 2026

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