Environmental Activism
Latest Stories

Environmental arsonist fled the country in 2005 to avoid lengthy prison sentence — it worked
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

How We Adapt: Climate Change on the West Coast
Join us for a conversation July 29 with Marketplace's Molly Wood and West Coast reporters.

The many lives of Joseph Dibee
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 many lives of Joseph Dibee
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.

InvestigateWest: Activists thwart fossil fuel projects
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.
Judge removes Trump’s public lands boss after governor sued
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

‘Timber Wars’ episode 6: The backlash
A congressional push to bring back logging triggered a return to the barricades in the Timber Wars.

‘Timber Wars’ episode 4: Mill City
Before the protests and court cases, Mill City lived up to its name as a place where sawmills created plenty of jobs.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/opb/NQVAVPDNRBD7XO3QCYMMJLNCAA.jpg)
‘Timber Wars’ episode 3: The owl
How a reclusive bird halted the march of chainsaws through the Northwest's last stands of ancient forest.

‘Timber Wars’ episode 1: The last stand
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.