(November 21, 2025) Foreign overfishing and fishmeal factories are stripping The Gambia’s waters, driving up food prices, and polluting coastal communities. Weak regulation and corruption have turned a basic food source into a tool of exploitation.

(November 16, 2025) Asbestos and lead are dangerous, long-lasting pollutants that threaten our health and environment, even as political battles continue to put their protections at risk. Recent gains, like the asbestos ban and stronger lead standards, now face renewed uncertainty, making it urgent to defend these lifesaving safeguards.

(November 13, 2025) Change the Chamber calls on Congress: will you choose people over corporate polluters? Americans need clean air, affordable energy, and safe communities, not empty deals. (Full statement below.)

(November 11, 2025) War and poverty are tearing through the DRC’s national parks, driving poaching, corruption, and the loss of endangered species. Amid the devastation, a few protected areas like Garamba offer rare hope for recovery.

(October 29, 2025) Billions of gallons of hog waste are poisoning Eastern North Carolina, and the communities hit hardest are Black and brown families living nearby.

(October 21, 2025) Oil and gas drilling brings radioactive waste to the surface, contaminating air, water, and soil, and posing invisible but lasting threats to human health. As corporations bury this toxic legacy under weak regulations, frontline communities and workers are exposing how our energy system trades public safety for profit.

(October 16, 2025) At NY Climate Week, Change the Chamber united experts and organizers to tackle how extreme heat endangers workers, and the bold solutions needed to keep them safe.

(October 5, 2025) Mass die-offs of sea life are sweeping coastlines as warming seas and pollution trigger toxic blooms and heatwaves. Scientists warn these cascading losses are a glimpse of what’s to come without urgent climate action.

(October 3, 2025) Change the Chamber calls out the government shutdown that’s putting public health, climate protections, and essential services at risk. Furloughing workers and stalling disaster response isn’t leadership, it’s sabotage of the people and planet Congress is meant to protect.

(October 2, 2025) Extreme heat is putting pregnancies at risk, increasing the chances of stillbirth, preterm birth, and lasting health complications. At the same time, rising temperatures are making decisions about whether and when to have children even more uncertain.

(September 30, 2025) Gold mining is once again threatening the sacred Black Hills, putting water, ecosystems, and Lakota culture at risk. Despite treaties and court rulings, corporations still push to carve open this ancestral land for profit.

(September 27, 2025) AI is transforming ESG with smarter data, risk insights, and green finance checks, but without transparency and ethical guardrails, it could deepen bias and emissions.

(September 26, 2025) Tropical Storm Chantal drove the Haw River up 30 feet overnight, flooding homes, churches, and highways across Alamance County. It’s a stark reminder that “small” storms are growing more destructive in a warming world.

(September 26, 2025) Earth Overshoot Day marks when humanity’s resource use outpaces what our planet can regenerate—pushing ecosystems and human health past their limits. These crises show that protecting the Earth is inseparable from protecting ourselves, and that climate action is a public health imperative.

(September 25, 2025) The DOE’s 2025 report denied ocean acidification, but the science is undeniable. Rising CO₂ is making oceans more acidic, threatening coral reefs, marine life, and the millions who depend on them.