Tag: climate justice
4 groundbreaking announcements from the global climate Action Summit
"In the long term, this is an unstoppable train."
We can no longer afford a fossil fuel economy
The costs of not acting are high. The benefits of investing in a clean energy economy would be widespread. We need to keep building the movement.
Worldwide #RiseForClimate events kick off to demand action on crisis of...
"Climate change is the defining issue of our time," say 350.org's executive director. "It is a crisis of democracy, justice, and human rights."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 4, 2018
New ICE policy gives immigrant families a cruel choice, two more government agencies ax climate change from their websites, a majority of Americans want Citizens United overturned, and more.
We just experienced 400 straight months of unusual warmth
"We live in and share a world that is unequivocally, appreciably and consequentially warmer than just a few decades ago, and our world continues to warm."
Trial date set for groundbreaking kids’ climate lawsuit
"It is a relief to see that the Court understands how imperative it is to get this trial underway as soon as possible, despite all of the delay tactics the U.S. government continues to try to use."
15 state AGs sue EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for not enforcing...
“Over and over again, the Trump administration has put polluters before the health and safety of New Yorkers.”
Russiagate: Democrats’ giant middle finger to climate justice
“Russiagate is such a dangerous, deeply entrenched, and relentlessly promoted narrative that only a broad coalition movement of justifiably outraged activists can defeat it.”
20,000 scientists have now signed ‘warning to humanity’
"Especially troubling is the current trajectory of potentially catastrophic climate change."
Video: The climate movement’s State of the Union
"The issue in front of us is not a scientific debate. It has everything to do political will."
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.