Environmental Activism

Joseph Dibee, former international fugitive and supporter of the Earth Liberation and the Animal Liberation Fronts, got a shorter sentence than his co-defendants, raising questions about how the federal government prosecutes what it considers acts of domestic terrorism

Join us for a conversation July 29 with Marketplace's Molly Wood and West Coast reporters.

The plot to burn down a Redmond slaughterhouse in 1997 sheds a light on our evolving conceptions of terrorism, including political views of last summer's Portland protests.

The plort to burn down a Redmond slaughterhouse in 1997 sheds a light on our evolving conceptions of terrorism, including political views of last summer's Portland protests.

Environmentalists teamed with Native Americans, ranchers and even windsurfers to block nearly every effort over the past decade to export fossil fuels from the West Coast.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and blocked him from continuing in the position

A congressional push to bring back logging triggered a return to the barricades in the Timber Wars.

The behind-the-scenes story of how a small group of activists and scientists turned the fight over ancient trees and the spotted owl into one of the biggest environmental conflicts of the 20th century.

The Timber Wars reached a scale that the president held a first-of-its-kind summit to broker peace to an environmental conflict.

How did we go from seeing forests as crops to viewing them as ecological wonders?