Tag: Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and...
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.
Another rupture: Keystone pipeline shutdown threatens fuel prices and exposes pattern...
Oil spill in North Dakota raises environmental and economic concerns as safety record of “safest pipeline in the world” comes under renewed scrutiny.
3 states pass anti-pipeline protest bills in two weeks
"While we are all paying attention to COVID-19 and the congressional stimulus packages, state legislatures are quietly passing fossil-fuel-backed anti-protest laws."
Bernie Sanders promises, if elected, all administration members will oppose fracking...
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that if elected for 2020 U.S. President, his administration would only be made up of officials who,...
Explosions in three states highlight dangers of aging fossil fuel infrastructure
On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky...
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.