Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard, the environment correspondent for The Nation and the author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, has been covering global climate summits since 1992.

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LOOMING

The $100 Trillion Carbon Bubble Threat

The housing bubble mess that Obama had to clean up was piddling compared to the potential crash of conventional fuel prices that lurks in the very near future.

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Shortchanged

Public Defender Turns Away Felony Cases

Derwyn Bunton, the Crescent City’s public defender, has refused to accept serious felony cases, claiming that underfunding means his office can’t do its job.

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GLOBAL COMMITMENT

Paris Climate Deal: Follow the Money

Climate change has always been about money, but the Paris agreement has a chance to change where money will flow, how quickly, and in what quantities.

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Decades of Deception

ExxonMobil Case Dwarfs Big Tobacco

Big Tobacco’s lies contributed to the deaths of smokers and their loved ones. But if ExxonMobil lied about climate change, every person and business interest on earth is affected.

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Moral Conflict

Greens See Red on Climate Change

It’s a far cry from eco-terrorism, but the loose collective that calls itself Climate Justice is all too willing to inject civil disobedience into the climate change wars.

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Mark Hertsgaard

The $100 Trillion Carbon Bubble Threat

Public Defender Turns Away Felony Cases

Paris Climate Deal: Follow the Money

ExxonMobil Case Dwarfs Big Tobacco

Greens See Red on Climate Change

Climate Seer Issues Direst Forecast Yet

Our Water-Guzzling Cadillac Desert

Egypt’s Incriminating Coup Tapes

How the Rich Stole Jazz Music

How Big Ag Gamed California’s Drought