Climate Change

For The Real News, I speak with Professor Petra Tschakert, a lead author of a new United Nations report that examines the effects of climate change on sustainable development. According to [...]

On his recent town hall tour across Canada, Justin Trudeau encountered many Canadians who are indignant about his government’s support for tar sands pipelines. One of those Canadians was [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Anthony Hobley, the CEO of Carbon Tracker, about Exxon’s dubious climate risk disclosure and the transformation in the financial industry’s attitude [...]

For the Real News, I speak to independent oil & gas researcher Regan Boychuk about the failure of governments in Canada to force the tar sands industry to clean up the vast toxic wasteland it [...]

Last week, Donald Trump’s administration imposed a steep 30% tariff on imported solar cells and panels, saying the move showed the United States would create more jobs in the country. For [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak to marine biologist and oil spill specialist Dr. Richard Steiner about the biggest marine spill of condensate in the history of the fossil fuels industry. [...]

Air pollution in India’s capital Delhi is now so bad that breathing Delhi’s air is the equivalent of smoking 50 cigarettes a day. For The Real News, I speak to Shouvik Chakraborty, a [...]

For The Real News, I speak with Alex Speers-Roesch of Greenpeace Canada about two major fossil fuels divestment initiatives announced within the past few days. The World Bank just announced that [...]

For the Real News, I speak with Jeff Schlegelmilch of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. As Jeff explains, national, regional and local governments have a great deal of work to do to [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Dr. Radley Horton, a professor of climate science at Columbia University and a co-author of a new, congressionally mandated report on climate change. As Dr. Horton [...]