Friday, May 3, 2024

Reminder: Climate change was no accident

The Exxon Mobil executives who’ve profited from fossil fuels did so while knowing that they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet and all of the species on it.

Today’s children will face lifelong health effects from the climate crisis

"Without immediate action from all countries climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation.”

As US officially quits Paris Accord amid election uncertainty, progressives say ‘make this disastrous...

“The U.S. exit from the Paris agreement is a shameful act and is especially cruel at a time when the world is reeling from devastating disasters worsened by climate change.”

A fairy tale from 2050

Donald Trump and the triumph of antipolitics.

‘Cancel this project’: Price tag of Trans Mountain expansion nearly doubles

One campaigner called on Canada's government to instead "put all of our energy and political will into a just transition that leaves fossil fuels in the ground and supports people, communities, and workers."

Fearing government whitewash, scientists leak draft IPCC report urging bold emission cuts

"There is no point for us to just observe what a disaster is unfolding if nobody is doing anything about it."

US poised to approve shipping LNG by rail for export with no new safety...

And all in the name of exporting fracked gas to the highest bidder abroad.

Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018

U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.

High amounts of a toxic forever chemical found in bloodstreams of West Virginia county...

The report found the chemical, which is used in firefighting foam, in the blood of residents in a community located near an Air National Guard base.