Murder, Pollution as Policy, and Two Women Who Won’t Give Up

May 23, 2025

Some may know Alexis Madrigal as the host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco’s NPR station. He’s also the author of “The Pacific Circuit,”...

The $300M Lawsuit That Could Crush Dissent

February 28, 2025

Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is suing Greenpeace for $300 million. The 2016 protests against the...

Transfer of Power: Life After Coal

December 13, 2024

For more than a century, coal powered much of the U.S. Now it's on its way out. That means all across the country, the communities that were built...

Crude Awakening: Why Ecuador Voted to Stop Drilling in the Amazon

June 28, 2024

Countries around the world are becoming more serious about reducing carbon emissions to meet international targets. At the same time, many of...

Six People Who've Changed Jobs for Climate

November 17, 2023

One of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Some people change their light bulbs, drive EVs and change their...

Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Aimee Boulanger

July 28, 2023

Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand...

Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?

April 8, 2022

In 2021, global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled. This year, automakers are projected to make another huge gain, driven by soaring gas...

Saudi America

October 18, 2018

Production of oil and gas in the U.S. has surged to levels unthinkable a decade ago due to the revolution in hydraulic fracturing, which has...

Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold

October 4, 2018

Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in...

Fracking Boom

April 1, 2014

America is in the midst of a fracking boom. Most new oil and gas wells in this country are drilled using hyrdraulic fracturing, the injection of a...