Environment

BP To Pay Largest Criminal Fine In U.S. History For Deepwater Horizon Disaster

By Rebecca Leber / Climate Progress

After two years, the litigation is not yet over since BP faces damages from Gulf states and additional civil charges from the Justice Department.

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5 Big Takeaways From Hurricane Sandy

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Obama Vows to Take Personal Charge of Climate Change in Second Term

By Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Energy Independence for America Is a Worthy Goal -- But It's a Death Wish If We Do It with Oil & Gas

By Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Obama Calls Out GOP on Benghazi Smears, Pushes House on Middle-Class Tax Break

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

We Have to Be on Guard About False Solutions for Climate Change

Whistleblower: Nuclear Disaster in America Is More Likely Than the Public Is Aware of

Watch: Bill O'Reilly-Loving Climate-Denier Breaks Down After Watching Documentary 'Chasing Ice,' Vows to Stop Climate Change

Environment

This Election’s 4 Biggest Populist Victories You Might Have Missed

Shannon Biggs / Global Exchange

Shameless Disaster Capitalism: How Companies Are Already Planning to Get Rich Off Superstorm Sandy

Naomi Klein / The Nation

Northeast US: Tens of Thousands Left to Freeze in Public Housing

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

First Colorado City Votes To Ban Natural Gas Fracking

Sara Jerving / PR Watch

What New York Can Do to Protect Itself From Future Storms

Bruce Stutz / Yale Environment 360

Obama Wins and So Does the Planet (Mostly): 6 Key Environmental Victories From Election Night

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

10 Ways Proposition 32 Would Hurt California and Catapult the Conservative Agenda in the State

Matthew Fleischer / Frying Pan News

How the Religious Right Is Fueling Climate Change Denial

Katherine Stewart / The Guardian

After Federal and State Governments Fail to Regulate Fracking, Communities Fight Back

Sharon Guynup / Blue Ridge Press

New Ads Launched: Romney Attacked Over Climate Change as Activists Tap Post-Sandy Concerns

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

How Occupy Sandy's Relief Machine Stepped Into the Post-Superstorm Void

Tom Hintze / AlterNet

Mitt Romney Versus Hurricane Sandy: the Most Brutal Campaign Ad of the Season

Editorial Staff / AlterNet

Which Political Leader Will Deal with “Weather on Steroids?"

Alison Rose Levy / AlterNet

"Please Don't Leave Us!" NYers Desperate for Help -- Latest Sandy Updates, What You Can Do

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

California Voters: What You Need to Know About Important State Ballot Initiatives

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Cites Sandy and Climate Change as Deciding Factors

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?

Mark Hertsgaard / The Nation

The Power Outage Didn't Divide NYC: Income Inequality Did

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Mitt Blows it on Sandy: Did the Hurricane Just Cost Him the Election?

Joan Walsh / Salon

Major Retailer Urges Workers To Take 'Civics Course' With Anti-Obama Content

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy

George Lakoff / AlterNet

We Need to Avoid Just Scaring Ourselves and Then Doing Nothing After a Disaster Like Super Storm Sandy

Daphne Wysham / Institute for Policy Studies

A Stormy Reminder of Why We Need Government

David Morris / OnTheCommons.org

Big Oil vs. Native Community: Canada's First Nations Challenges Shell's Plan to Mine Tar Sands

Kristin Moe / YES! Magazine

Frightening and Amazing Photos From Those Enduring Sandy's Wrath

Editorial Staff / AlterNet

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