Friday, April 19, 2024

Oil industry plans to keep workers safe—by firing them and having robots do their...

Industry isn’t safe and worker safety still isn’t a priority.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 20, 2018

Progressives go big on Medicare for All, California Supreme court squashes splitting the state into two, Zinke takes a wrecking ball to the Endangered Species Act, and more.

Adidas to phase out ‘virgin’ plastic from its sportswear, will only use recycled polyester...

Adidas will start using recycled polyester in its spring and summer 2019 sportswear line in which the products will contain 41 percent of the recycled material.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Sanders rips Trump on Helsinki remarks, Mueller seeks immunity for 5 mystery witnesses, net neutrality defenders declare a win, and more.

Exxon leaving ALEC: Important but insufficient step in addressing company’s history of climate science...

Over the last few years, ExxonMobil has come under fire numerous times for lobbying in the UK against electric vehicles, funding Congress and corporate lobby groups to deny climate change, and knowingly misleading the public about the reality of the issue.

Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018

While Ireland is making history, many emphasized the need for the rest of the world to follow the Irish's lead.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 13, 2018

Justice Department reopens the Emmett Tiller investigation, Trump's global chaos tour, Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018, and more.

Historic floods in Japan kill more than 100, force millions to flee

"We've never experienced this kind of rain before."

Jeff Sessions sets back the clock

How low can he go? And how far back can this Attorney General take us?