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.
Big Tech faces first social media addiction trial
The major social media addiction trials are being compared to historic litigation against big tobacco and opioid manufacturers, with potential for billions in damages and forced changes to platform designs.
Why stock buybacks must be ended
Buybacks don’t grow the American economy. So why are buybacks so popular with Corporate CEOs?
Plastic pollution is a problem – these kids are working for a solution
We have five questions for teenagers Carter and Olivia Ries, founders of One More Generation and the One Less Straw campaign.
EPA approves use of herbicides linked to cancer and crop cross contamination
Dicamba, the main ingredient in the three herbicides, is "highly volatile and can easily drift onto unprotected neighboring fields from fields of crops genetically engineered to withstand it."
This Pride month let’s remember: corporations are not allies
The Target company’s capitulation to homophobes and transphobes is a testament to the dangers of relying on corporations to uphold social justice.
Federal judge bans use of glyphosate in Brazil
The decision prohibits the registration of new products containing the herbicide and suspends existing registrations within the next 30 days.
Iran punished for treatment of women
The U.S. initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission.
Let’s have a wealth tax to fund Medicare for All
The total amount of tax would be $8.426 trillion. At present, the federal government spends $4.407 trillion annually. The wealth tax would be nearly twice as large.
Orrin Hatch’s ‘bullcrap’ on taxes is exactly that
Hatch’s tax plan is nothing more than another giveaway to his rich patrons.