Climate Change
Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?
A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents.
NEW YORK CITY—The group in the Brooklyn studio seemed harmless. There was a graduate student, a Yiddish teacher, a hairdresser. Fifteen people had gathered on a Wednesday night for a training offered by Extinction Rebellion NYC and Climate Defiance, two climate activist groups that engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and theatrical protest.