Tag: climate
New York is on the verge of major climate action –...
Lawmakers stalled as advocates pushed to get an ambitious climate bill through the state senate before the legislative session ended.
We can’t fight climate change if we keep lying to ourselves
The inability to see what is in front of our eyes replicates the blindness of all past civilizations that celebrated their eternal glory at moments of precipitous decline.
Trump’s climate-change sociopathy
Trump’s sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe.
We will soon be using more than the earth can provide
Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter.
Electric trains everywhere: A solution to crumbling roads and climate crisis
Transportation accounts for nearly a third of the country’s carbon emissions.
Taxpayers charged $7 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels on...
"This report makes it clear as day that the Trump agenda is the fossil fuel billionaire agenda."
From Europe to China to India, uncertainty and fear over Trump’s...
The E.U., China and other leading economies must share the brunt of the responsibility to tackle climate change.
Gutting climate protections won’t bring back coal jobs
Trump is using sympathetic out-of-work miners as a cover for what is really just a handout to dirty industry.
How broadcast networks covered climate change in 2016
The networks failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial.
Bernie Sanders to Trump: “We will fight you every step of...
“Mr. Trump, you cannot run a government by rejecting science.”
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.