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Nov 11, 2024 | 
prismreports.org | Denali Nalamalapu
Nearly 10 years ago, three veterans in rural Appalachia planted the seeds for what would become a national movement to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 303-mile-long methane gas pipeline that runs from northern West Virginia to southern Virginia. In early 2015, George Jones, Clarence Givens, and Russell Chisholm met in the basement of the Newport Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church in Giles County, Virginia with other community members who would be impacted by the pipeline buildout.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
prismreports.org | Denali Nalamalapu
When a massive pipeline ruptured in the steep slopes of Appalachia earlier this year, regulators in charge of environmental and community safety looked the other way. They shared no details with the residents living near the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) who watched sediment pollute delicate ecosystems and municipalities’ water sources.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Ray Levy-Uyeda |Sam Knight |Denali Nalamalapu |Bill Kitchen
This story was originally published by Prism. A legal battle currently unfolding in southern Virginia will set the stage for future environmental protests. A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge signed an order on Nov.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Ngakiya Camara |Daniel Falcone |Chris Walker |Denali Nalamalapu
After a summer of tainted skies from wildfires, New York City began autumn in knee-high waters from flash floods. And just as smoke from the fires filled the air and seeped through windows and down into subways, so too did the heavy rainfall last Friday, its vast reach spanning across all five boroughs. I, like many New Yorkers, have been unfortunate enough to have witnessed both — an inescapable reality of our neglect to act on climate change.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Zane McNeill |Denali Nalamalapu |Jessica Corbett |Tyler Walicek
“We are fed up and we won’t take it anymore,” one activist said. ByZane McNeill, TruthoutPublishedSeptember 29, 2023Activists from the Sunrise Movement occupy Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's office on September 28, 2023.Sunrise MovementOn Thursday, over 150 youth Sunrise Movement activists occupied the office of Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (California) to demand that McCarthy stop the impending government shutdown and focus on funding climate action instead.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Anita Hofschneider |Chris Walker |Denali Nalamalapu |Martha Baskin
Briefly, we wanted to update you on where Truthout stands this month. To be brutally honest, Truthout is behind on our fundraising goals for the year. There are a lot of reasons why. We’re dealing with broad trends in our industry, trends that have led publications like Vice, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic to make painful cuts. Everyone is feeling the squeeze of inflation. And despite its lasting importance, news readership is declining.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Abigail Geiger |Kwolanne Felix |Denali Nalamalapu |Chris Walker
Briefly, we wanted to update you on where Truthout stands this month. To be brutally honest, Truthout is behind on our fundraising goals for the year. There are a lot of reasons why. We’re dealing with broad trends in our industry, trends that have led publications like Vice, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic to make painful cuts. Everyone is feeling the squeeze of inflation. And despite its lasting importance, news readership is declining.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Olivia Rosane |Kwolanne Felix |Denali Nalamalapu |David Hilzenrath
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged for a second time on Friday for not leaving a protest near an oil terminal after police ordered her to do so. The new charge comes less than two months after Thunberg, who launched the School Strike for Climate movement five years ago in August, was convicted for the same offense. If convicted again, Reuters reported, she could face up to six months in prison.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Julia Conley |Kwolanne Felix |Denali Nalamalapu |C.J. Polychroniou
Scientists behind a new study on the crossing of the Earth’s “planetary boundaries” on Wednesday likened the planet to a sick patient, warning that six out of nine barriers that ensure the Earth is a “safe operating space for humanity” have now been breached.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Jake Johnson |Denali Nalamalapu |Desiree Kane |Julia Conley
Nearly 180 environmental defenders were killed around the world last year — around one murder every other day — and more than 1,900 have been killed over the past decade, according to a gruesome new tally released Wednesday by the human rights group Global Witness.
