AUTHOR Jessica Corbett Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Jessica Corbett's Posts: The Defender Grain Giants’ ‘Disaster Capitalism’ Profits During Food Crisis Spark Global Outrage The Defender ‘Forever Chemicals’ — Linked to Billions in U.S. Health Costs — Could Undermine Economy The Defender In Historic Ruling, Tech Firm Banned From Sharing Facial Recognition Data The Defender EPA Unveils Plan to Protect Wildlife From Pesticides, Environmentalists Call for More Concrete Steps The Defender Big Oil Using Wartime Profits to Enrich Investors, Report Says The Defender Hawaii Court Rejects Big Oil’s attempt to Dismiss Historic Lawsuit The Defender Plan to Spend Billions on Gas Pipeline Projects ‘Makes No Sense,’ Experts Say The Defender Sanders Slams Congress for Serving Billionaires and Failing Americans The Defender 12 Private Equity Firms Dripping in Oil and the Wealthy Executives Who Run Them The Defender Nuclear Energy Not Clean, Safe or Smart — and It Won’t Solve Climate Crisis The Defender Corporate Polluters’ Push for ‘Nature-based Solutions’ a ‘Dangerous Scam’ The Defender Rep. Katie Porter Grills Big Oil Using M&Ms, Bags of Rice at Historic Congressional Hearing The Defender Secret Vaccine Contracts Reveal How Pfizer Strong-Armed Governments to Maximize Profits The Defender 155+ Arrested as Protesters Turn Up Heat on Biden to Halt All Fossil Fuel Projects The Defender 12 Major Central Banks Continue to Fuel Climate Crisis, Report Says The Defender ‘Long Overdue’: EPA Bans Pesticide Chlorpyrifos on Food Crops The Defender ‘Terrifying’ New Research Shows Amazon Flipped From Carbon Sink to Carbon Source The Defender New Reports Expose How ExxonMobil Used Cash to Buy Influence Over Congress The Defender Water Protectors: ‘Climate-Wrecking’ Tar Sands Pipeline Poses Catastrophic Threat The Defender After Bezos’ Fortune Hits Record $211 Billion, Lawmakers Demand: ‘Tax the Billionaires’ The Defender Undercover Videos of Exxon Lobbyists Reveal Anti-Climate Campaign The Defender Permanent Protections, Not Temporary Ban on Drilling, Needed to Protect Arctic Refuge for Future Generations The Defender Citing Facebook’s Failure to Protect Children, Congress Members Call on Social Media Giant to Ditch Instagram for Kids The Defender 80 Groups Blast U.S. for Interfering With Mexico’s Plan to Ban Glyphosate and GMO Corn The Defender EPA to Slash Greenhouse Gas Pollutants Widely Used in Refrigerators, Air Conditioners The Defender NYC Sues Big Oil for ‘Tangled Web of Lies About Deadly Products’ The Defender ‘All Eyes on BlackRock’ — Climate Activists Demand Shareholder Action The Defender Biden Administration Misses ‘Huge Opportunity,’ Fails to Halt Dakota Access Pipeline The Defender 3,000+ Experts Urge Governments to Protect, Restore World’s Oceans The Defender 1 in 3 Freshwater Fishes — Vital to Food and Jobs for Millions — Face Extinction The Defender U.S. Will Rejoin Paris Agreement to ‘Protect Public Health, the Environment and Restore Science’ The Defender Scientists Warn of ‘Ghastly Future’ Unless Policymakers Act Now The Defender ‘Big Step' for Antitrust: Lawsuits Accuse Facebook of Illegal, Monopolistic Behavior The Defender Make Amazon Pay: An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos The Defender Mosquito-Control Pesticides Sprayed in at Least 25 States Contain Cancer-Causing PFAS Chemicals, Tests Show The Defender EPA Rushed Approval of Controversial Weedkiller Dicamba, Despite Court Ruling and Drift Concerns