Tag: California Wildfires
PG&E announces initiative to submerge 10,000-miles of power lines to lessen...
PG&E's new infrastructure safety initiative is said to be the largest effort to lessen the risk of wildfire in the U.S.
Trump administration proposes oil and gas lease sale in California while...
“We’ve blocked any new federal leasing in California in court for eight years now, and we’ll fight this too.”
US media can’t think how to fight fires without $1-an-hour prison...
The main difference: Unlike prison laborers, regular citizens have to be paid more than pittance wages.
Trump admin exploited wildfires to encourage logging
Instead of stopping the burning of fossil fuels, which is an obvious way to reduce emissions and lower the risk of wildfires, the Trump administration chose a more corrupt route.
‘Modern day slavery’: Prisoner firefighters risking their lives in California battling...
“California fights fires with slave labor.”
Meet the prisoners being paid $1 an hour to battle the...
California saves up to $100 million a year by using prison labor to fight its biggest environmental problem.
31 dead, 250,000 evacuated in California fires as Governor blames climate...
California Governor Jerry Brown unequivocally blamed climate change for the devastation.
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.
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Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...
A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation
The ‘weavings’ of a wacko: The fakery of grinding Trump hokum into brilliance
“I never ramble, I only ‘weave,’”/ Thus doubling down ways to deceive.
Georgia school shooting sparks renewed debate over gun control and safety reforms
With the suspect now in custody, questions about gun safety, political will, and legislative inaction are dominating the conversation.
Steward Health Care CEO refuses Senate subpoena after profiting off hospitals drowning in $9...
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Sanders, is investigating Steward’s bankruptcy, which has left over 30 hospitals in crisis, saddled with $9 billion in debt.
The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t want the world...
The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.