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Cleaning Up California’s Dirty Freight System

A cargo train passes the windmills outside of Palm Springs, Calif.

California asserts its commitment to a strong economy and a healthy environment in its new Sustainable Freight Action Plan, but the state can do even more to clean up the polluting freight system.

The Death of World Heritage Sites

The future of priceless World Heritage sites like the Great Barrier Reef depends on the immediate reduction of climate-change-inducing greenhouse-gas emissions, but many of the governments responsible for protecting these sites are failing to take strong

The future of priceless World Heritage sites depends on the immediate reduction of climate-change-inducing greenhouse-gas emissions, but many of the governments responsible for protecting these sites are failing to take strong climate action and are actively pursuing dirty energy projects.

Model For Monopoly Power Companies Needs to Change

Solar panels on the rooftops of homes in the Salt Lake neighborhood of Oahu, Hawaii.

The Public Utilities Commission rejected the NextEra-Hawaiian Electric takeover deal, but the real work to build a clean energy system by and for the people of Hawaii has just begun.

End of the Line for Oakland Coal Scheme

West Oakland organizers recently led their community to victory against a multi-million dollar dirty energy proposal.

Getting to Know José González, Founder of Latino Outdoors

Founder of Latino Outdoors José González (right) talks about his group’s efforts to encourage Latinos to connect with the great outdoors and to shine light on the conservationism so pervasive in the Latino culture.

José González, founder of Latino Outdoors, talks about his group’s efforts to encourage Latinos to connect with the great outdoors and to shine light on the conservationism so pervasive in the Latino culture.