Does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities?
In America’s greenest state, the industry has spent $122 million in the past six years to shape regulation and legislation. It wins more than you think.
In the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, Native American activists achieved one of the most galvanizing environmental victories — and it all began with a group of teenagers.
The Seven Council Fires camp and the adjacent Sacred Stone and Red Warrior camps have become communities of Native American solidarity likely not seen in more than a century.
The protest against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota forged an unlikely coalition of veterans, Native Americans and environmentalists who produced an even more unlikely outcome.
It's clear that many of the people camped out at Standing Rock aren't just protesting the construction of one pipeline—they're making a statement about the way the United States has treated Native Americans, and their lands, for centuries.
There’s no need for environmentalists to stop being experts, or to abandon the institutions and establishment alliances. But they should be clear that their mission is more than technical. They are working to defend a living world that is under assault at every point.
Since his January 20 inauguration, President Donald J. Trump has issued a dizzying array of statements, executive orders, and memorandums, several of which have bearing on international affairs, foreign policy, and the soft power agenda of the United States government.
