In 2018, hundreds of thousands of protesters joined France's yellow vest movement against French President Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax hike. (Photo by Christophe Leung / CC BY 2.0) This is your first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent criticism of Connecticut's proposed Environmental Rights Amendment portrays constitutional protections as threats to ...

Amid increasing funding to protect the Amazon and ahead of COP 30 in Brazil, the United States should recognize environmental defenders’ vital role in protecting democracy. In November, an estimated ...

A United Nations authority on environmental activism says rising state repression of environmental defenders in Europe threatens human rights and democracy, citing international legal frameworks with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2017, Trump’s former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke urged the then-president to shrink the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument ...

This week Barbara Fought is joined by Rick Fenner, Anirban Acharya, Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Aaron Strong to discuss topics of concern as we enter the new year. The panel explores environmental ...

The intrinsic benefits of democracy, including government accountability and personal freedoms, are acknowledged in many countries. Yet, average citizens and democracy advocates also ask, to what ...

The Trump administration is planning to shutter the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights at the Environmental Protection Agency and has placed nearly 170 employees on ...

To those of you who love your children, your extended family, your friends, yourselves and your country, and are watching with despair as the federal government dismantles the Department of Education, ...

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is embroiled in legal trouble. An environmental nonprofit accuses the electric car giant, led by Elon Musk, of repeatedly breaching the federal Clean Air Act. The lawsuit, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 7, 2025) At the end of the Independence Day weekend and after the Congressional passage of reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) on July 3, ongoing legislative proposals challenge the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Moderate and liberal Denver Post readers agree: the nation’s democracy and good government are the most important issues in this year’s elections. But among ...