Ranchers fight Keystone XL pipeline by building solar panels in its path
It's one of several creative protests against pipeline companies trying to use eminent domain to take private land. A Nebraska hearing is planned for August.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 6, 2018
The NRA faces a financial crisis, all the Trump Tower meeting drama, federal judge issues game-changing decision on dark money, and more.
Virgin Atlantic makes first transatlantic flight using sustainable jet fuel
“The idea that this flight somehow gets us closer to guilt-free flying is a joke."
Plastic debris plagues Honduras beaches
The "massive trash tsunami" was filled with plastic debris believed to have come from a neighboring river in Guatemala.
Dakota Access Pipeline begins service the same day Trump announces withdrawal from Paris agreement
This decision is not the first – nor will it likely be the last – from the Trump administration to move the United States backwards in climate action.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 9, 2018
The first ever Muslim Congresswoman, Zinke blames wildfires on environmentalists, Trump wants to open California's public lands to fracking, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 27
The 7 senators who will decide Kavanaugh’s fate, more police violence, a declaration from the third Kavanaugh accuser, and more.
Sanders crafts amendment to close ‘holes’ in Medicare that ‘are harming seniors’
"Adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits to Medicare is supported by 84% of the American people," said an aide to the senator, who plans to propose including the expansion in Democrats' reconciliation package.
Congress introduces EARN IT Act, which would end encryption programs but violates the Constitution
“EARN IT is anti-speech, anti-security, and anti-innovation. Congress must reject it.”
West Virginia lawmakers send ‘deadly’ abortion ban to GOP governor’s desk
The bill "bars abortion from implantation with narrow exceptions to save the pregnant person's life or in cases of rape or incest so long as the victim reports the crime."