The White House just gave a boost to the growing fossil fuel divestment campaign that has spread to over 300 colleges and universities and more than 100 cities, states and religious institutions across the country.

Here's what happened. In a thoroughly boring Department of Energy report on the energy-efficiency...

Updated at 4:00pm ET with a statement from the college administration.

The fossil fuel divestment movement is heating up around the country.

Today, 11 students at the Rhode Island School of Design are sitting in at their President's office to demand that he and the Board of Trustees Chair personally...

In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth helped spark a new wave of concern about global warming. Now, our team here at 350.org is hoping to spark a new wave of not just concern, but action, with a new documentary called Do the Math about the growing movement to take on the...

A year ago, Rep. Stephen Lynch was an ardent supporter for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now, he just seems confused.

Lynch is running against Rep. Ed Markey in the Democratic primary for John Kerry's old Senate seat in Massachusetts. With no serious Republican candidate in the race,...

If President Obama rejects the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, Big Oil executives are likely to look back at last weekend's tar sands spill in Mayflower, Arkansas as a key reason for their defeat.

In a rational world, President Obama would have rejected the Keystone XL pipeline long...

What's happening over at the New York Times? A day after the paper announced that it would be cancelling its Green Blog (while keeping it's essential horse racing blog), columnist Joe Nocera has published another piece going after NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen, 350.org, and the campaign against...

Ok, this really is what democracy looks like. On Sunday, over 40,000 people poured into the streets of Washington, DC to protest the Keystone XL pipeline and push President Obama "Forward on Climate."

I'm sitting just a few blocks from the White House and marchers are still coming by...

The two sides in the fight over the Keystone XL were put in sharp relief this morning in Washington, D.C.

Over at the headquarters of the American Petroleum Institute, the largest front-group for the fossil fuel industry, PR flacks were scrambling to pull together a conference call with reporters...

With the new Go Fossil Free fossil fuel divestment campaign spreading like wildfire to over 190 universities and colleges across the country, I knew it wouldn't be long before the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed criticizing the effort.

Although Fox News beat...

Well, now at least we know what regular Fox News contributor Joe DeVito was doing in college. On last Thursday's Halftime Report, DeVito criticized students for getting involved in activism, explaining that college was just "a place to finish going through puberty without getting arrested or getting anyone...

The island of Mindanao in the Philippines couldn't be much farther away from New York City, but this week they've been inextricably linked by tragedy.

This Tuesday, as volunteers from Occupy Sandy spread out across Red Hook to help with another day of recovery, a monster-typhoon slammed...

The next chapter in the fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline begins today with a major protest in Washington, DC.

More than 3,000 people are expected to join a rally at the White House this afternoon. Together, we'll march around the entire property with a 500 ft...

Here's an idea: instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to corrupt our political process, what if the fossil fuel industry took all that money and put it towards Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts instead?

After all, while the fossil fuel industry didn't directly cause Hurricane Sandy, they did...

More than 1,000 people joined a massive protest against fracking in Albany, N.Y., this Monday afternoon. After a rally at Corning Preserve Riverside Park, the crowd marched to the capitol and delivered a pledge to resist fracking in New York that has been signed by over 3,000 people.

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A coordinated campaign to promote the hashtag #endfossilfuelsubsidies during the Rio+20 Earth Summit has taken the internet by storm today.

The online action began at 08:00 GMT and quickly skyrocketed to the #2 trend on Twitter worldwide. As sun rose in the United States, #endfossilfuelsubsidies was still...

How can world leaders at the Rio+20 Earth Summit next week show that they are serious about sustainable development and environmental protection? The answer is simple: end fossil fuel subsidies.

Every year, governments around the world give nearly $1 trillion dollars of public money to the...

Can a single photograph change the world? Can a thousand pictures inspire a global movement?

On Christmas Eve, 1968, Bill Anders, an astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission, snapped what would become one of the most iconic photographs of all time, an image of planet Earth rising in the...

Striking images and video are beginning to stream in from more than 1,000 events in more than 100 countries where people are "connecting the dots" between climate change and extreme weather. The events are part of a global effort called "Climate Impacts Day," organized by the international climate campaign 350.org....

Over the last year, millions of people around the world have felt first-hand the impacts of the growing climate crisis. From devastating flooding in Thailand to historic drought in Texas, global warming has moved from an abstraction to a dangerous new reality. Here in the United...

The fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is starting to feel more like a bad horror movie everyday. Just when you think our heroes have struck a fateful blow, out comes a hand from the soil. "The zombie lives!"

This Thursday, President Obama will travel to Cushing,...