Tag: environment
Backed by Ocasio-Cortez, youth climate activists arrested at Pelosi’s office demanding...
"Ocasio-Cortez's decision to join the protesters and march on her own House leader sets a tone of urgency and combativeness that is rare on Capitol Hill."
Judge halts further fracking off coast of Southern California until a...
"A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop issuing permits for offshore fracking in federal waters off the California coast."
31 dead, 250,000 evacuated in California fires as Governor blames climate...
California Governor Jerry Brown unequivocally blamed climate change for the devastation.
How the environment fared in the midterm elections
Here are some results from notable elections around the country – and what they could mean for the future of the planet.
The best and worst midterm results for the environment
When it comes to the environmental implications of individual races and ballot measures, the night was about equally full of gains and losses.
There is no planet B: Vote like the planet depends on...
"If you're a climate voter, get out there and VOTE – but if you can, don't stop there. Take action like the planet depends on it. Because it does."
Noam Chomsky: The future of organized human life is at risk...
We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form.”
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe renews legal challenge against DAPL
“The Dakota Access Pipeline represents a clear and present danger to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its people, and we will continue to fight until the Corps complies with the law.”
How Big Oil dodges Facebook’s new ad transparency rules
We’ve identified 12 ad campaigns in which energy, insurance and other industries masked their sponsorship of political messages on Facebook.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.