Nick Martin

@nicka_martin

A recent study found that if the Colorado River drought continues, Arizona, California, and Nevada may have to cut their water usage by nearly half. Acceptance is the first step.

The five-figure energy bills Texans are now facing aren’t an accident: The system was designed this way.

The congresswoman from New Mexico could make history if confirmed as head of the Department of the Interior. But there’s more to the story than that.

The U.S. government long knew about lead poisoning in a public housing complex in Indiana and it did nothing—an all-too-familiar combination of federal apathy and structural racism.

Including activists from the Sunrise Movement and elsewhere could improve the president’s climate policy while energizing the youth vote.

President Biden shouldn’t wait to pull the plug on oil projects that threaten Native communities and others around the globe.

Colorado River drought and water supply issues could soon affect 12 percent of Americans.

The grocery giant shuttered two stores rather than follow a law requiring a $4 raise during the pandemic.

Biden’s pick for agriculture secretary brings stale solutions to growing crises like climate change and labor inequality.

Joe Biden’s executive memorandum doesn’t go far enough.

Duke Energy’s influence in North Carolina goes well beyond the electricity bill.

It’s time to finish what the Obama administration started. It’s time to finish off coal.

Without congressional action, the Biden administration’s planned Day One revocation of the Keystone XL permit will be an important but temporary victory.

The fight for a copper deposit beneath sacred lands shows the extent of the government’s extractive greed.

Much of Congress thinks rules are for other people.

Corporations are temporarily turning off the money tap after helping to fund an insurrection. Let’s make the change permanent.

The Supreme Court declined to consider a chemical company’s appeal, handing the Shoshone-Bannock tribes a rare victory against polluters.

Although the recent auction of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling rights flopped, Biden’s team will have a tough time rolling back a strategy designed to survive a Democratic White House.

Much like mosquitoes or bed bugs, they can hop on and off a host president as needed.

The labor carve-out that allowed a California grocery giant to replace employees with contractors might be coming to a state near you.