Sunday, July 12, 2026

Average gas mileage of new US vehicles did not improve in 2021

“Automakers won’t slash pollution and improve gas mileage unless strong standards make them do so.”

We don’t need government-granted patent monopolies to finance drug development

The best way to get alternatives to the current patent system was to have examples of successful drugs developed without relying on patent monopolies.
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The ghost of Eugene McCarthy could haunt Biden’s path to renomination

Fifty-five years ago, pundits scoffed when a Democratic senator announced that he was running against incumbent Lyndon Johnson for their party’s presidential nomination.

Calls to ‘stop building new oil pipelines’ grow as data shows severity of Keystone...

"Pipelines also often cross our nation's wetlands—a risk that could be greatly magnified if the Supreme Court strips away their federal protections."

House Committee report shows how Big Oil has been gaslighting us all along 

The fossil fuel industry has done everything it can to gaslight the public into believing that we are all equally responsible for causing the climate crisis and that the industry was working hard to solve it.

Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema leaves Democratic party

Sinema intends to continue to caucus with Democrats and keep her committee assignments.

Inferno

The inferno this planet threatens to become.

Behold the cult marriage made in hell: party can’t win with Trump, can’t win...

When does the GOP declare the obvious – that Trump is the monumentally flawed cancer at the center, his and the party’s worst enemy?

‘Corporate greed at its worst’: top US utility giants reap $14 billion in profits...

"Utility companies have chased higher and higher profits and enriched investors rather than keep prices stable for working families."

Russia’s Ukraine war and energy crisis have scared the world into turbocharging adoption of...

By 2025, only about two years from now, renewable energy will surpass coal as a power source globally.