Fossil Fuels

Gary Wilson
Musk’s A.I. Power Plant Exposes Capitalism’s Data-Center Crisis
27 May 2026
A Black community in Tennessee is living with the environmental impact of a data center brought to them by Elon Musk and conniving elected officials.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Documents of Disaster and Conferences of Calamity: Rhetorical Questions, Questions of Rhetoric and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
29 Apr 2026
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels produced a People's Declaration. There have been many such statements over the years, yet the climate crisis continues unabated.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 24, 2026
24 Apr 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss the importance of including African-descended people in discussions around climate change and a just transition from fossil fuel production. But we begin with a…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
On the Eve of an International Fossil Fuels Conference, Afro-Descendants Ask How Black Lives can Matter Without Acknowledging their Existence?
22 Apr 2026
Afro-descendant organizers are being erased from a fossil fuels conference before the event even begins.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How the GOP is Saving the Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump…With Help From the Democrats
14 May 2025
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class…
Lylla Younes
Black Residents in Cancer Alley Try What May be a Last Legal Defense to Curb Toxic Pollution
23 Oct 2024
In St. James Parish, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Blue (MAGA) In Green (Or, U.S. Bourgeois Environmental Groups Prioritize the Democratic Party Over Environmental Justice Principles)
18 Sep 2024
The Democratic Party markets itself as the party of environmental protection while pursuing policies that are endangering all life on earth. Fossil fuel producers are able to do as they please…
Melissa Garriga
Don’t Let Warmongers Greenwash their Ecocide this Earth Day
24 Apr 2024
The destruction of the environment and acceleration of the climate crisis happen silently under the veil of “national security,” despite the fact that the environmental toll of war is the most…
Anthony Rogers-Wright
Joe Biden’s Petroleum Puppetry is Pulling the Strings of War and Environmental Racism
26 Apr 2023
Joe Biden is like all of his party's predecessors. He talks a good game on environmental policy, but he is the front man for the fossil fuel industry and is even waging a proxy war in Ukraine to help…
Anthony Rogers-Wright
For Black People, Ridin’ With Biden is a Health Hazard
18 Jan 2022
Like all of his predecessors, Joe Biden is in the pocket of fossil fuel corporations and other polluters. Environmental racism is a byproduct of this corruption.