CO2 and other carbon emissions are understood to be the primary anthropogenic (man-made) contributor to climate change... read more

The DAPL is an oil pipeline built to carry crude oil from North Dakota to an oil tank farm in Illinois, begun in 2016 and completed in 2017... read more

Despite the varying benefits of global forests, from fostering biodiversity to helping clear greenhouse gasses, humans are destroying forests at a rate of approximately 50 football fields every minute... read more

Fossil fuels, such as petroleum (oil), coal, and natural gas are formed over millennia as natural processes act on organic material. They’re extracted for fuel. They're outdated and harm our environment more than they help us... read more

Gun violence is one of the most high impact issues facing American society today: 2016 saw over 15,000 gun-related deaths (41 per day), including homicides, unintentional shootings, suicides, 385 different mass shootings... read more

While the battle to legalize gay marriage dominated many of the conversations about gay rights in recent years, workplace rights and protection against workplace discrimination have always been major concerns for LGBTQ activists... read more

The prison industrial complex (PIC) is the intricate network of companies and investors profiting from America’s broken incarceration system and the millions of incarcerated Americans it exploits, as well as the legislators and governmental systems that enable them. read more

The scale of the current global refugee crisis is unprecedented in recorded history, with 1 out of every 113 people now forcibly displaced, and 34,000 joining their ranks every day. The majority of refugees are children... read more

Human trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of exploitation are widespread in global supply chains. An estimated 21 million people are currently victims of trafficking, with a quarter of victims under the age of 18. This screen, developed in partnership with JUST Capital, favors companies doing the most to identify and stop these abuses... read more

A report by the World Health Organization describes the activities of the tobacco industry between 1950 – when its research first made connections between cigarettes and cancer – and the late 1990s as “the most astonishing systematic corporate deceit of all time”... read more

Many Americans feel upset, disenfranchised, and frightened by the election of Donald Trump to the American presidency, as well as his subsequent selections for cabinet positions... read more

While legally women have equal rights to men in the US, they still face disparities and discrimination in the economy. Two well-recognized issues are representation and equal pay... read more