Friday, October 2, 2026

Tag: climate change

Tech billionaires are actually dumber than you think

It turns out that many of today’s billionaires are selfish, lonely men fantasizing about how they will survive the end times they have played a part in creating.

Wealthiest 10% responsible for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, study...

“[I]t appears that climate policies over the past decades have often targeted low-income and low-emitter groups disproportionately, while leaving high emitters relatively unaffected.”

The urgent climate case for defunding the Pentagon

Is it finally time to defund war?

Why are wild horses brutally uprooted from public lands while private...

The Bureau of Land Management is misleading the American people about the nation’s wild horses and burros.

Connecting the dots between climate devastation and fossil fuel profits

As Pakistan drowns, as Puerto Rico is cast into darkness, and as Jacksonians remain thirsty, it’s past time for a climate tax on fossil fuel companies.

Oil undercover: The sneaky ways Big Oil pushes its interests

Big Oil lied to us for decades about climate change.

The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s...

We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters by training people to both protect and mobilize their communities.

How flood-ravaged Kentucky is getting major federal infrastructure help

Climate change rendered these communities and countless others across the country vulnerable to increasingly frequent and powerful storms.

Exxon could have helped stop climate change 30 years ago, ‘proprietary’...

Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.

Internal documents show Big Oil PR messages still ‘mislead’ public on...

Despite claims of transitioning to cleaner energy, internal emails and documents obtained by a congressional investigation show oil companies trying to protect their fossil fuel investments through public narratives that conflict with private communications.

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The President from Hell (and High Water)

Tom Engelhardt on what a Democratic sweep in November would and would not change, and a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel.
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Colorado sues to stop private immigration detention center in Hudson

The state says the federal government never studied what a 1,200-bed facility would do to a town of about 1,600, its water supply or local wildlife.
A gas flare at a landfill in Ohio. Photo: Vince Reinhart / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Residents sue Avenal landfill operators over toxic gases and alleged underground fire

State records cited by a community group show carbon monoxide readings of up to 3,420 parts per million in landfill wells, more than double the level regulators say suggests a subsurface fire.
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Crystal Mason’s belief in democracy was shaken — but not destroyed

For 10 years, Texas prosecutors accused her of voter fraud after she cast a provisional ballot that was never counted in the 2016 election. That changed Thursday.
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Credit Acceptance agrees to million settlement over unaffordable subprime car loans

Borrowers who lost cars to repossession will get million in debt relief, and the lender must cap vehicle prices at 109% of retail book value for seven years.