A typical Earth Day celebration might entail planting a tree in your yard and teaching children about the importance of low-impact living by promoting the habits of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." But in Utah, the celebration of Earth Day has taken on a new spin, and it's anything but earth-friendly. Utah's Department of Oil, Gas and …

These days, there is a great deal of controversy about fracking and natural gas production. Many of us are fighting to ban fracking from our communities. Many more of us are living in places where drilling for gas has been going on for decades, with or without horizontal fracturing. Banning isn't a remote possibility–and neither is …

Many political activists are familiar with the expression, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” In most contexts, it has a positive meaning, but when we are talking about climate change, those rising tides can be devastating. Here in Massachusetts, rising tides aren’t lifting just boats, they also threaten to flood densely populated areas and erode …

This was written by John Flesher for the Associated Press: On one level, it's a straightforward case of a business seeking a government permit to discharge wastewater. But when the Environmental Protection Agency rules shortly on whether to let the S.S. Badger car ferry continue dumping ash into Lake Michigan, it will be a milestone in …

This piece was written by Alex Trembath and Max Luke for Politico:  With the State of the Union address coming up on Tuesday, liberals are wondering how President Barack Obama will set the tone for major progressive priorities in his second term. By giving climate change a prominent mention in his second inaugural address last month, …

Angela Monti Fox is a psychotherapist and social worker by vocation, but she’s also an activist – partly by what you might call an accident of birth. She’s the mother of filmmaker Josh Fox. Fox’s 2010 Emmy award-winning documentary, Gasland exposed the perils of hydraulic fracturing —

Fracking is sparking debate across the country. Have you seen the latest movie about a gas company going into a rural small town in Pennsylvania to extract natural gas from shale rock that exists deep below the ground, Promised Land? Scary stuff. Along with the hundreds of toxic chemicals used in the fracking process that …

Promised Land, a small film by Hollywood standards, stars co-screenwriters Matt Damon and John Krasinski. Directed by Gus Van Sant in the tradition of The China Syndrome and Silkwood, Promised Land uses mainstream entertainment to delve into American values, corporate responsibility, and activism.

Moms Clean Air Force has joined a broad coalition of environmental, conservation and children’s health groups that petitioned the EPA to expand ozone monitoring in communities, near protected national parks and wilderness areas, and at oil and gas

Are you one of the thousands of people who read MCAF partner, Beth Terry's, Plastic-Free: How I kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too? If so, were you shocked by the sheer volume of plastic in our world? Did you read the part about the plastic islands in the Pacific Ocean made up …