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Here are four cases that everyone should be paying attention to that could decide whether justice is dealt to the water protectors and the Standing Rock Sioux.

Whether we are working at high-level strategy, on the ground in our community, actively influencing, organizing, showing up at our jobs, we can foster conditions that create safety and the ability to name our fears.

Celebrity investor Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary recently hyped the $70 billion AI data center proposal to be powered by “200 trillion cubic feet of sweet natural gas.” Less than two months after O’Leary launched what he called “Canada’s biggest-ever real estate deal” and “the world’s largest AI data centre industrial park,” the wheels appear to be falling off on several fronts.

“We share how lives are being lost, communities are being destroyed and big oil is making a trillion dollars a year and getting 20 billion dollars in tax breaks and subsidies. It’s all so crazy.”

The best way to sell the low-carbon heating transition is locally, where the kinds of attachments and allegiances to heat that we have uncovered are best appreciated and understood. Local authorities are typically best placed to do that.

Today, Nate is joined by environmental health researchers Leo Trasande and Linda Birnbaum, as well as environmental policy advocate Christina Dixon, to discuss the harmful effects of plastic on human health and the ongoing global policy efforts to regulate the plastic and petrochemical industries.