Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 15
DNA confirms Elizabeth Warren's ancestry, Trump says 'we won' in regards to Christine Blasey Ford, Bernie Sanders rips White House for dismissal of climate science, and more.
Amazon announces plan to adopt green hydrogen to decarbonize operations
Amazon signed an agreement with Plug Power to "supply 10,950 tons per year of green hydrogen," which will replace grey hydrogen, diesel and other fossil fuels.
5 things to know before next week’s critical UN climate talks
You can participate, too. Climate change is not some far-away phenomenon, it is here now and impacts people around the globe everyday.
Paying for an overheating Earth
At a time when the major fossil-fuel companies are still raking in staggering profits off their oil and natural gas supplies, as that line straight out of my childhood went: There oughta be a law.
NBC’s Meet the Press devotes entire show to climate change with no time for...
"The Earth is getting hotter. And human activity is a major cause, period. We're not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled, even if political opinion is not."
New York bans single-use plastic bags
New York becomes the second state to ban single-use plastic bags starting in March 2020.
The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?
A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet
Oklahoma’s oil industry touts a voluntary fund to clean up oil wells. Major drillers...
The money that has been refunded to these companies in recent years could have restored an estimated 1,500 orphan well sites.
California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save...
Big data, big oil and white supremacy: Unveiling the dark forces behind Trump’s 2020...
In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign.