The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech.
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Climate Justice
In order to avert a climate catastrophe, we must transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.
Latest Work
Welcome to the Ultimate Escape Room
It’s hard not to feel that all of humanity deserves a Darwin award when you see the effects of recent superstorms, the vanishing of polar ice, and the heedless drilling for oil and gas everywhere.
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Baltimore Voters Stand Up to Water Privatization
In a rare instance of progressive preemption, the city’s voters told private water corporations to leave them alone.
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A Half-Degree Change in Temperature, a 180-Degree Change in Thinking?
Global temperatures are rising unmanageably quick, but a shift in public consciousness could lead to the climate policy changes we desperately need.
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Want to Save the Climate? Break Up the Big Banks.
Our economy — and our planet — depends on it.
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Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal
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Confronting Climate Change in a Deeply Unequal World
The global reaction to two landmark new reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation.
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Luxury Real Estate Boom Adds to Risk of Climate Disruption
Should cities build new fossil fuel pipelines to power skyscrapers for the super-rich?
Read moreReport: Financial System Change, Not Climate Change
How Banks and Investors Can Be Weaned Off Their Addiction to Fossil Fuels
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Killing for Coal (Literally)
Shocking as this sounds, the U.S. government is — by its own admission — willing to murder up to 1,600 Americans a year to enrich a few coal billionaires.
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Reports
Change Finance, Not the Climate
How to get money out of fossil fuels — and into a Green New Deal.
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live
