Rising temperatures are the common thread running through the top climate news stories this week: record melting of arctic ice and a heat wave throughout the United States. July’s soaring temperatures coincided with the lowest level of Arctic ice o

  If the Keystone XL pipeline were a celebrity, this would be its tabloid moment. In the past week, story after story has revealed what we in the environmental and climate movement have suspected all along: this pipeline extension is dangerous,

  By Joe Solom0n It’s crazy to think how the summer is almost over – and crazier still to think how this movement is on the edge of making history. This Saturday begins a two week wave of peaceful sit-ins at the White House gates, wi

In the grand history of civil disobedience, a peaceful protest is not new. But in the relatively new history of the climate movement, it still is. Starting this past Saturday, ordinary people from across North America have gathered in Washington, DC

The heads of the nation’s largest environmental organizations—often at odds on the best strategy for combating climate change—released a letter today calling on President Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would span from the ta

Today was the biggest day of peaceful civil disobedience yet at the White House as 140 Americans including the top climate scientist and a large group of religious leaders were arrested to push President Obama to deny the permit for a massive new oil

TransCanada says their Keystone pipelines are the safest on the continent. But what about those 12 spills in the past year? Since its operation began in June of 2010, the Keystone 1 pipeline has suffered more spills than any other 1st year pipeline i

Last month, the U.S. State Department endorsed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the massive TransCanada project that will pump 900,000 gallons of tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas refineries. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently followed the Stat

September 7, 2011 Dear President Obama, We–a group of Nobel Peace Laureates–are writing today to ask you to do the right thing for our environment and reject the proposal to build the Keystone XL, a 1700-mile pipeline that would stretch f

This summer, 1,253 people were arrested over two weeks of sit-ins at the White House while protesting the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline. This December, President Obama will face the most important test of his environmentalist credentials before the