Coachella rising: Aging farmworkers, unions, organic mangos & the Salton Sea.
Co-published by The American Prospect
Forty one years ago I was a young organizer for the United Farm Workers in the Coachella Valley, helping agricultural laborers...
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It’s 2050. In New York, the old working-class Long Island beach town of Mastic Beach no longer exists–and neither does the beach; the sand...
Ontario government wades into Enbridge Line 5 debate.
LANSING, MI -- A Canadian provincial government has waded into the Enbridge Line 5 debate, calling the pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac "a critical...
Oil patch demands more water. West Texas fights over a scarce resource.
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Ranch manager Will Hughes looks over a retention pond filled with water from a well...
In race against rising seas, Louisiana scrambles to save dwindling coast.
August 3, 2017
Jean Lafitte, La.—Tough decisions are coming thicker and faster than the Gulf of Mexico in southern Louisiana these days – and the...
Tactical retreat? As seas rise, Louisiana faces hard choices.
August 2, 2017
Terrebonne and Plaquemines Parishes, La.—Growing up in the small bayou town of Pointe-aux-Chenes, Reggie Dupre has always considered the residents of the...
Real greenhouse gas footprints of reservoirs revealed
When hydropower reservoirs traps organic matter, it leads to higher local greenhouse gas emissions. But the emissions are not increased but displaced. A new...
Green power still tied up with red tape in Macron’s France.
Some eighty days into Emmanuel Macron’s new job, Europe’s biggest renewable energy companies are still waiting for the French president to make good on...
Tech guru Bill Joy unveils a battery to challenge lithium-ion.
Elon Musk isn’t the only visionary betting that the world will soon be reliant on batteries. Bill Joy, the Silicon Valley guru and Sun...
Keystone XL foes don’t mention climate in red state pipeline battle.
You won’t hear the C-word coming from Keystone XL foes as they argue against TransCanada Corp.’s push to get the final state approval needed...
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