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How — and Why — You Should Support Climate Justice for Puerto Rico Right Now
As a child, I spent summers in Puerto Rico visiting mis abuelos (grandparents) in their beautiful home in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan; chopping caña, playing in the waterfalls…
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A Congo journey
The Congo Basin provides food, fresh water and shelter to millions of people. A mosaic of rivers, forests, savannas, swamps and flooded forests, the forests of the Congo Basin are…
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After Hurricane Irma, I Know Exactly Who to Blame
I live in Gainesville, Florida and as the route of the hurricane moved west and the eye came for us, we again found ourselves dealing with the “unprecedented.” As the…
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A Letter From Florida to the Nation: Climate Denial Is Killing Us
I’m safe now. I had to evacuate from my home in St. Petersburg to Orlando to avoid the worst of the dangerous wind, rain, and storm surges brought on by…
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Protesting Nuclear Weapons Takes on New Meaning in Trump’s America
Last Wednesday, on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, I walked to the gates at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a heavy heart. Heavy because as…
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Donald Trump’s ‘War on Regulations’ Is Really a War on Working Class People
Donald Trump wants you to think that “regulation“ is a dirty word. To hear his administration talk about things like the Clean Air Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act,…
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Resist Trump, Defend Planet Earth: A Message From Chicago to the White House
It’s a sunny day in my hometown of Chicago and Greenpeace activists have just sent Trump and his team a message they can’t ignore: we will band together to resist…
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The Day I Was Treated Like a Mobster and Served a $300 Million Lawsuit for Defending Forests
Resolute Forest Products, a company headquartered 5,000 miles away in Montreal, was bringing us to a distant court in Augusta, Georgia. Reading through the complaint, I saw my name, absurd…
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Donald Trump Can’t Hide From the Resistance
The USS Intrepid is huge. It’s a 27,000-ton, 820-foot, 2,600-person-capacity giant of an aircraft carrier permanently anchored in the Hudson River. But even the Intrepid couldn’t shield Donald Trump from…
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VIDEO: This Cancer Survivor’s Story Shows What Gutting the EPA Would Mean for Public Health
Heather Von St. James has a friendly, Midwestern quality to her voice. Speaking to her over the phone, she comes off relaxed and assured, passionate yet polished. But when you…
