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Federal investment has a chance to transform our economy and help save the planet. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to threaten a debt ceiling fight to slow us down on fighting climate change.

As the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster approaches, the government is selling more oil and gas leases. That could weaken the enthusiasm of American voters who care about climate change, Ben Jealous of the Sierra Club writes.

We want to put our money where our aspirations are. Opponents of this responsible approach to investing derisively label it “woke” because they know that term creates confusion and for some, fear. So it’s a perfect wedge to divide us.

If you ever forget the logic of King’s strategy, just pull out a $1 bill and turn it over. It’s right there in the Great Seal of the United States: E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one.

The sweeping bill amounts to a "trickle down fantasy" to hand profits to fossil fuel companies, she said

In latest blow to Joe Biden’s reputation as the ‘climate president’, 73.3m acres of the gulf will be offered for fossil fuel extraction

Protesters cut up credit cards and march to Washington branches of JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo

After a conflict and reckoning stemming from its controversial past, the Sierra Club had to look inward. Can Ben Jealous bring the organization into the future?

President Joe Biden has sparked a firestorm by saying in his State of the Union address that the United States will need oil “for at least another decade

Since his unsuccessful run for Maryland governor against Larry Hogan in 2018, Benjamin Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP, has kept up the pace he established as a scholar, activist and entrepreneur before trying politics. He served as president of People for the American Way, has a professorship at…

It may be hard for many people to believe just how extreme Trump’s movement and his political supporters have become, and just how much of a threat to democracy they pose as we approach this year’s congressional elections.