Environment

Without greater equality, Herman Daly helped us understand, our environment has no real shot at renewal

Pols in the Sunshine State would rather keep taxes on the wealthy low than average families safe.

Environmental and climate justice movements flexed their growing power in Washington, beating back a dirty environmental deregulation bill — for now.

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, a reluctant billionaire, puts company in trust devoted to address ecological crisis.

The maldistribution of American income and wealth is playing a seldomly recognized rising-temperature role.

Colombia has new leaders who see the direct link between plutocracy and the plunder of our most valuable ecosystem.

Running on a platform of gender equity, progressive taxation, and environmental protection, Colombia’s first leftist president could bring much-needed change to a deeply unequal nation.

Vast fortunes, inherited or otherwise, simply would not exist without the assaults now destroying our planet. Taxing those fortunes to fund climate action could give us a shot at survival.

This Earth Day, we don’t have to look too far to find examples of public policy investments in our future.