Tag: climate policy
Trump invokes wartime powers to expand fossil fuel production amid rising...
Defense Production Act orders authorize federal support for oil, coal, liquefied natural gas, and grid infrastructure as industry profits increase during Iran conflict.
Big oil cashes in as Trump’s Iran war drives $30 million...
Analysis shows fossil fuel giants capturing massive gains as oil prices surge during conflict, intensifying scrutiny over war-driven economic impacts.
Oil executives reap record stock windfalls as Trump’s Iran war drives...
Record energy sector stock sales follow conflict-driven oil price spike as consumers face billions in additional fuel costs.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to...
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.
Senate Democrats demand answers after EPA moves to drop monetized health...
Lawmakers say Trump administration policy could allow agency to sideline public health gains when weighing industry costs under the Clean Air Act.
Trump administration revokes EPA endangerment finding, unraveling foundation of US climate...
Rollback targets legal basis for greenhouse gas limits as environmental and public health groups prepare lawsuits.
House vote advances SPEED Act as 11 Democrats join Republicans to...
Climate and frontline groups warn the permitting bill would gut public oversight, fast track polluting projects, and undermine one of the nation’s foundational environmental laws.
Ahead of COP30, UN report warns 1.5°C breach as countries commit...
With fewer than one third of Paris Agreement signatories submitting updated climate plans, the UN’s new synthesis report shows global pledges would cut emissions by only 10 percent by 2035 as world leaders admit “overshooting is now inevitable.”
Scientists warn the planet has crossed its first climate tipping point
Global heating has pushed warm-water reefs past a point of no return, scientists warn, with mass bleaching since 2023 affecting more than four-fifths of reefs and cascading risks for food security, coastal protection, and the global economy ahead of COP30.
Billions in clean energy projects canceled amid Republican tax bill and...
Clean energy investments are vanishing as the Trump administration’s tax plan and rollback of Biden-era climate policies threaten America’s transition to renewables.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
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Women leaders and Trump 2.0.