The Resistance, Part 1: With an army of lawyers, an activist legend squares off against polluting industries along the Texas coast she calls home. SEADRIFT, Texas—All day, Diane Wilson sat in a ditch outside a chemical plant here on the Gulf Coast of Texas, waiting to see if sheriff’s deputies would show up to run […]

Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator. Residents have long opposed the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center, which burns waste to generate energy, for adding to toxic air pollution in a predominantly Black community with high rates of asthma. […]

NEW YORK CITY—The group in the Brooklyn studio seemed harmless. There was a graduate student, a Yiddish teacher, a hairdresser. Fifteen people had gathered on a Wednesday night for a training offered by Extinction Rebellion NYC and Climate Defiance, two climate activist groups that engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and theatrical protest. They sat in […]

Classes were canceled at several schools in the Dutch capital after overnight climate protests left gates glued shut—and emergency exits sealed using heavy chains.