Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 6, 2018
Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA, grassroots groups demand tech companies cut ties with ICE, a 20-foot-tall Trump blimp gets the okay in London, and more.
Watch: Greenpeace crashes Superman drone into nuclear power plant to expose facility’s dangers
"This is a highly symbolic action: it shows that spent fuel pools are very accessible, this time from the air, and therefore extremely vulnerable to attack."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 4, 2018
New ICE policy gives immigrant families a cruel choice, two more government agencies ax climate change from their websites, a majority of Americans want Citizens United overturned, and more.
As industry pushes billion-dollar fracked petrochemical projects, state regulators struggle to keep up
“I’m really worried when you see this kind of very large investment and then we try to play catch-up on evaluating what the risks and the impacts on people are.”
Minnesota approves controversial Enbridge pipeline rebuild
Tribal groups say Enbridge's plan is the worst possible route.
Rise of the machines: Fracking execs plan profits by using automation to shrink workforce
The oil and gas industry appears primed to follow in the footsteps of the coal industry, where automation has been eating away jobs for decades.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, June 29, 2018
#WomensMarch marches against Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, Nestlé continues to take California water, the Koch brothers plan for the next Supreme Court justice, and more.
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change. Check the fine...
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
Tropical forests lost 40 football fields of tree cover per minute in 2017
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.
Why women from Asia are confronting US fracking: Oil extraction equals plastic production
“If we are going to stop plastic we need to stop plastic where it starts.”