Scott Pruitt’s unjustified personal security cost taxpayers over $3.5 million: EPA audit
Over just 11 months in 2017, Pruitt racked up millions – on the taxpayers’ dime – on his own personal security.
Trump signals possible US entry into Israel Iran war as death toll rises and...
As Israel expands its military assault on Iran, President Trump suggests US forces “could get involved,” sparking warnings from lawmakers and experts of illegal war and regional catastrophe.
Trump’s pick to lead energy tech innovation program is invested in gas utilities and...
The backdrop to Lane Genatowski’s nomination is an overall uncertainty over the future of the very agency he’s supposed to lead.
A putz at fascism, too! Trump’s feral, libertarian despotism ordains oligarchy, not centralized dominance...
Trumpist extremism turns out to be a particularly noxious, authoritarian brew better called “oligarchic, authoritarian libertarianism.”
Big Oil spends record millions to defeat the nation’s first carbon tax
Washington state currently ranks fifth in the nation in crude oil refining capacity for making gasoline and other petroleum products.
Must climate change dinosaurs go extinct before getting started on serious eco-energy reforms?
The entire resource/energy problem is as simple to understand as it is hard to resolve.
Biden to cancel $39 billion in student loans post SCOTUS decision
More than 800,000 borrowers with debts outstanding for more than 20 years could have their student loans discharged.
Sanders ‘disappointed, but not surprised,’ as Senate rejects 10% military spending cut
"Spending $886 billion on the Pentagon will not make us safer."
Child refugees hit record in Latin America, Caribbean as climate crisis, poverty grip region
"The unprecedented scale of the child migration crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean urgently requires a stronger humanitarian response as well as the expansion of safe and regular migration pathways for children and families," said one international advocate.
Tax evasion and the 1%
“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”