Earth Day

Today, the holiday is just a chance for ExxonMobil to release nonsensical ad campaigns. But once upon a time, it was a radical success story.

Before Earth Day made a name for the environmental movement, a massive oil spill put a spotlight on the dangers of pollution.

What we can learn from the successes of local activists in 1970.

January 2017's Women's March wasn't the first time Fifth Avenue in New York City hosted an enormous demonstration.

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.

Richard Nixon helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.

The forgotten environmental action that pointed the path forward for the left.

How the disaster energized the nascent environmental movement and led to a slew of legislative changes.

San Diego's city-wide mission to promote sustainability, combat climate change, and reduce environmental health disparities.

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

Johanna Fernández's new book on the Young Lords sheds light on the group's fight for clean streets and public health in 1960s New York City.

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

In the late 19th and early 20th century, talk about “the environment” had little of its later coherence or political meaning.